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Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
Date: 1 Oct 2024 01:31:28 GMT
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:09:33 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> This bears repeating. As someone whose initial exposure to OOP concepts
> was via C++ (and then Java,) I spent *years* never understanding what
> the appeal was. Wasn't until I encountered Smalltalk, way on down the
> line, that I finally *got* it.

If you're exposure was to Booch, Rumbaugh, and UML you tend to shudder 
when someone says 'object oriented'.