Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

[Wayne Brehaut]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:37:04 -0400, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
wrote:

>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <f787ul0npv at news4.newsguy.com>,
>> Chris Carlen  <crcarleRemoveThis at BOGUSsandia.gov> wrote:
>>>From what I've read of OOP, I don't get it.  
>> 
>> For that matter, even using OOP a bit with C++ and Perl, I didn't get it
>> until I learned Python.
>> 
>>> The problem for me is that I've programmed extensively in C and .asm on 
>>> PC DOS way back in 1988.  
>> 
>> Newbie.  ;-)
>> 
>> (I started with BASIC in 1976.)
>> 
>Newbie ;-)
>
>(I started with Algol 60 in 1967).

Newbie ;-)

(I started with Royal McBee LGP 30 machine language (hex input) in
1958, and their ACT IV assembler later! Then FORTRAN IV in 1965. By
1967 I too was using (Burroughs) Algol-60, and 10 years later upgraded
to (DEC-10) Simula-67.)

Going---going---

>>> Form 2:  Use Python and PySerial and TkInter or wxWidgets.
>>>
>>> Pro:  Cross-platform goal will likely be achieved fully.  Have a 
>>> programmer nearby with extensive experience who can help.
>>> Con:  Must learn new language and library.  Must possibly learn a 
>>> completely new way of thinking (OOP) not just a new language syntax. 
>>> This might be difficult.
>> 
>> My experience is that learning GUI programming is difficult.  Moreover,
>> GUI programming in C involves a lot of boilerplate that can be automated
>> more easily with Python.  So I think this will be a better solution.
>> 
>I used to write in C for the SunView platform (back in the days when the 
>GUI was integrated into the kernel as the only way to get acceptable 
>speed on the display). From what I remember, "Hello World" took about 40 
>lines.
>
>The immense (relatively speaking: this was 1985) size of the libraries 
>required was one of the primary justifications for implementing shared 
>libraries.
>
>> Note very very carefully that Python does not require an OOP style of
>> programming, but it will almost certainly be the case that you just
>> naturally start using OOP techniques as you learn Python.
>
>That's very true. I still use a lot of (perhaps too much) procedural 
>coding, but driving the object-oriented libraries is a great way for a 
>noob to get started in OOP.
>
>regards
>  Steve