I hoped it would if I stayed away from regular programming long enough.
Just commenting. Beware that if you reply to this thread AND sound like you know what you’re doing I might ask you question!
“OOP is starting to make sense”???
well, with my background, “OOP” refers to the “major misconduct” of Out Of Place (referring to inmates who can be shown to be either at a place they weren’t supposed to be at or NOT at a place they were supposed to be at).
so, no danger of me making sense here…
Very soon it will suddenly ALL make sense!
'tis pretty cool, isn’t it, dropzone? When you’re ready for it, I highly recommend the book “Design Patterns.” Takes OOP to the extreme…
You down with OOP?
(Yeah, you know me!)
Hey - it’s all indoctrination - I Object to it…
I’ve had people try to explain it to me, but it never made much sense. I’m one of the cobble (er, COBOL) generation, and procedural coding just seemed the right way to do stuff as far as I was concerned. (Yes, I admit it - I wrote some of that Y2K code. In COBOL, PL/1, DYL260, DYL280, and DMS, to name a few)
But now that I’m trying to update my skills, and I’m taking some classes, it makes more sense. Hang in there, it gets better with practice.
**lurkernomore: **Watch the bad puns, or we’ll kick you off the Property and strip you of your Inheritance!
The more I learn about OOP, the more I realize how overhyped it is.
Of course, the more I learn about programming in general, the more I realize how overhyped it is. 
OOP is fine when you have plenty of memory and plenty of resources. But when you want some real work done, quickly, with a minimum of bloatware, you gotta go control-flow.
Besides, developing in Ada is so expensive and unless your developing for the DOD, is overkill. And C++ will be phased out by C# in Windows apps. But you’ll always need assembly and C.
Damn, I sound like a total geek don’t I?
:: shuffles away slowly
Xixor, there are other 00 languages you know…so not a total geek!
Ralf,
Just passing down the rules....PL/1 ? haven't heard that in a LONG time...Okay, true story:
I’m taking Intro to C (They didn’t have Intro to C++ just yet, which disappointed me. It was '94 and the C++ handwriting was on the wall.) and, for the final, we are to write a simple address database. I’m no programmer in any language, but in twenty minutes I had thrown together something in QuickBasic that did everything just so I could have the logic worked out.
One week later, having wasted half of my vacation days for that year while working sixteen hour days, I handed in code that wouldn’t compile. Errors would crop up on one compiler while two others were jiggy with that part but barfed on something else. To this day I have no idea why it wouldn’t compile.
I felt lucky with a C in the class and went back to BASIC. But I have never been comfortable accepting that failure and will beat that stupid language, or some relative of it, yet.
want fun? Play with LISP. Program can eat itself and use directives for data.
I fiddle some with Autolisp at work. It’s wacky!