Slightly off topic, but later on in that Qc Na thread:
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This brought to mind my introduction to OOP by a talented
but notoriously inarticulate programmer:
NIP: Do you know what OOP is?
Me: No.
NIP: Ah. Well, you have objects and methods.
Objects: objects aren't anything. And
methods are how you talk to objects.
Okay?
Me: Sure.
I knew there was no point in asking questions -- this was
the man at his most expository. I took him to mean, "Forget
what objects are, just work with them."
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Which I take to mean "Objects are black boxes. How they behave is what they are"
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This brought to mind my introduction to OOP by a talented but notoriously inarticulate programmer:
NIP: Do you know what OOP is?
Me: No.
NIP: Ah. Well, you have objects and methods. Objects: objects aren't anything. And methods are how you talk to objects. Okay?
Me: Sure.
I knew there was no point in asking questions -- this was the man at his most expository. I took him to mean, "Forget what objects are, just work with them."
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Which I take to mean "Objects are black boxes. How they behave is what they are"