Re: My First Ever OOP code

Whoops, I called you Nate. I meant Duke. LOL

On 1/6/2026 6:47 PM, Mark Bratcher wrote:
> You'll find lots of opinions about OOP. Some reputable software 
> engineers don't like it at all. And like any programming paradigm, it 
> has suffered lots of abuse, giving it a bad name.
>
> For me, I find it has its place. For several years I've gotten used to 
> thinking in terms of classes/objects but that's only because I've been 
> programming in C++ or other language that supports classes. If I shift 
> over to a different language that isn't so, I work with whatever the 
> best practices are for that language. It's definitely good though to 
> understand the helpful/useful principles in any programming paradigm 
> and incorporate them into your toolbox.
>
> All the best to you, Nate, in your future programming endeavors!
>
> Mark
>
> On 1/6/2026 6:10 PM, Duke Normandin wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 14:29:28 -0500
>> Mark Bratcher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> It's not easy diving into OOP at this level without general OOP
>>> concepts and purpose, which are independent of the language being
>>> used.
>> Thanks you for your detailed post! Although I _am_ aware of the "4
>> Pillars of OOP", I'm not intimately familiar with them.
>>
>> I've been hacking code since 1981 or so - never using OOP - but
>> using Perl, C, PHP, various Lisps & Schemes.
>>
>> The Smalltalk code I wrote was intended to created a
>> function/method that could be called in order to return a
>> temperature using a particular scale.
>>
>> I was not interested in what "universe" the "object" lived in that
>> I needed the temperature for. Just like I the `abs' function
>> doesn't care what its given argument pertains to. `abs' is simply a
>> built-in function, or one living it a "math" library/module/package.
>>
>> It seems to me that OOP insists on creating mini universes for
>> everything and linking these universes together using inheritance,
>> as well as creating convoluted rules as to what can done, seen,
>> how and when.
>>
>> Maybe it's just the Smalltalk syntax that is getting in my way. I'm
>> going to try some other OOP supported language to see if the whole
>> process becomes more intuitive for me.
>>
>> Thanks for yours and others' input!