On 2003.09.16 09:21:39 +0100, Car Chilley wrote:
> Many years observation and
> experience lead me to postulate that, for whatever reason, the successful
> conversation rate is low, somewhere around the 40% mark.
I've sometimes wondered about the impact of the language used.
I worked for Object Technology International, which was then still
a big Smalltalk group, in my final co-op work term and subsequently
as a permanent employee for 2.5 years. Despite having developed
in C++ for two years before that, having read the GoF, and having
built an OO operating system (or so I thought at the time), it
wasn't until I was exposed to Smalltalk that I *really* understood
OO. Well, at least as well as I do now :-)
And I now feel frustrated having to use Java, which just doesn't
feel to support the concepts as well -- at least not as I've since
come to use them. My code just doesn't feel as `nice'.
My $.02.
--
Brian de Alwis | Graduate student | Software Practices Lab | UBC
"Passivity & cynicism have always come easily to the educated." - Ed Broadbent
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