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• OO (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  If you find yourself enjoying the OO paradigm, might I suggest learning a bit of Ruby and seeing how it stacks up against the Perl and C++ versions? If not, I'll await your final Perl product and see what I can come up with. :)
  • Re:OO (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309) on 2004.06.15 12:06 (#31555) Homepage Journal

    I like OO, but I like prefer to use it when needed not all the time. Something that works in Perl and to a lesser degree in C++ is to write some procedural prototypes or functions to prove a concept, then refactor and re-implement in purer OO as the requirements and solution become clearer.

    I assume Ruby doesn't have the 'Everything must be an object' OO puritanism of Java.

    I would look at Ruby but getting up to speed on C++ is work enough and I don't see Ruby bringing in a salary anytime soon.

    I plan to learn the minimal PHP and Python to get by with those should I need to hack some of either language but I dislike them both (although knowhere near the degree of vbscript).

    Perhaps I can look at ruby once I have some more popular and widely-used, if less fashionable and modern, languages.

    Besides, by the time I can learn Ruby, Perl 6 will have knicked most of its good bits anyway ;)

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    • Re:OO (Score:2)

      by djberg96 (2603)

      I assume Ruby doesn't have the 'Everything must be an object' OO puritanism of Java.

      You are correct - you can use a functional style in Ruby if you wish.

      Now that you mention it, it might be interesting to see how your code looks in Java. :)