[Info-vax] OO

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Melted brain now fried ....