Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

  I see. So, it seems to me that what you discovered was more
  about Smalltalk specifically than about OOP concepts in general.
  I thought maybe you could give some insights about what OOP is
  and what any advantages or disadvantages of it might be because in
  your "I finally *got* it", I assumed that "it" referred to "OOP".

I'm a total amateur in coding but I did once try to figure out what
OOP was all about.  Knowing a little C, I looked at C++ and was
repulsed [rant elided].  But I did write a Towers of Hanoi in XLisp
using its OOP feature.  A disk that needs to be moved sends a message
to a disk that's on top of it to get-off-of-me and [tedious further
detail omitted] recursion happens by magic without having to think
about recursion.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada