[ale] Language Jihad!

[Rod Young]

What is a good OO language for someone who has only programed in fortran?

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On 07/16/2001, 8:56:34 PM, Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> wrote 
regarding Re: [ale] Language Jihad!:


> Fulton Green wrote:
> >
> > It probably depends on your prior language experience. C++ would 
obviously be
> > easier for someone coming from Java than from, say, Perl. And having
> > personally made the transition to C++ directly from C, I didn't find the
> > language itself to be all that hard; it was applying the object-oriented
> > constructs properly within the language that took me a while to fully get 
a
> > grasp on.

> My transition was from C to C++ as well.  I didn't find it difficult,
> but I found it frustrating to do so much bloody work to set up all these
> classes before you actually do any 'real' coding.  I find novice
> programmers as well as seasoned ones have a harder time grasping the OO
> paradigm, and that is what I believe makes the learning curve steeper.

> I wouldn't necessary agree with the Java/Perl comparison, as you can
> write OO perl as well, particularily if you're using the html generating
> modules (the name escapes me at this time).

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