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[sgroarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sean Groarke)]

Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> >
> > I was wondering a few things:  How long where you a C programmer before you
> > first tried to learn OOP?
> 
> 5 years.
> 
> > hours beating your head against the wall.  It sounds to me this is what
> > happened to you when you first started learning OOP, am I write?
> 
> I think a lot of it was I just didn't get the point sometimes.  My brain
> worked in the flat level of C and I think it was just a huge paradigm
> shift for me to finally get it.

Hell, I empathise! I spent a couple of years "some time ago" making a living
programming in BCPL, which has the prestige of being the (main) ancestor of C. I
found the move to C a challenge, and as for C++, well..... tricky.

Having said that, I agree that if someone is new to programming, I'm sure C++
would pose many fewer problems than it does to ruined old functional programmers
like me!

Sean


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