An evangelist's handbook? (Was: Re: Making a better textbook)

[Aahz]

In article <d6dae77c.0211081300.c94f95a at posting.google.com>,
Ben Wiedermann <benalan at cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>In my experience, the "encapsulation" problem is a significant hurdle.
>And it seems to me that folks who came to object-oriented programming
>from procedural programming seem to have a harder time overcoming the
>hurdle than those who have known only object-oriented programming.
>Strange.

Maybe.  Speaking as someone who learned BASIC, Pascal, Ada, C, and
FORTRAN long before learning a real object-oriented language, my opinion
is that most OO languages try to *force* OOP in a way that makes it much
harder to grasp.  Python makes it easy.
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