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flap:
I wouldn't recommend an object oriented language to anyone. Why start them off learning bad habits?

Laukev7:
What's wrong with object oriented languages?

flap:
Well basically if OO were just a minor syntactic extension to a procedural language (i.e. a simple addition of classes/objects as enriched data structures) then I wouldn't really have a problem with it. But taking the idea of objects and then orienting the whole programming approach around it doesn't really make sense.

Learning OO is one thing, but I wouldn't recommend an OO language as a first language.

[ May 22, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

insomnia:
I prefer Perl myself, but it's less easy to start with.

Laukev7:

quote: But taking the idea of objects and then orienting the whole programming approach around it doesn't really make sense.
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Fair enough, but what's wrong with the object approach? I want to learn a programming language myself, and I'd like to know why you think the procedural approach is better than the object approach.

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