[Info-vax] OO

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-22 05:39:52 +0000, David Froble said:

> Brain melted ....

OO works really, really well for a number of common application 
programming tasks.   It's definitely a different approach from what 
went before, and some of the flexibility that can be had from OO is 
novel when you first encounter it, and very useful once you get the 
hang of it.  OO strongly encourages you to separate your various hunks 
of data and code — that separation is possible with non-OO languages, 
but that separation is not inherent in the language constructs and flow 
control.

There are other programming approaches that are yet different from OO, as well.

This is part of why I'd suggest trying different languages and 
different environments.  Some of what I've learned from working with 
Objective C and the Cocoa frameworks on OS X and iOS is going directly 
into back my OpenVMS application designs and application programming, 
for instance.


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