Re: Some Laws

>> to quote Alan Perlis, "A language that doesn't affect the way you
think about programming is not worth knowing." OO programming isn't like plain procedural. It just isn't. It took me long hard years of work, frankly, to really "get it." <<

I tell people the same thing about SQL and thinking in sets. At least a year of full time work seems to be required to "get it" from what I have seen. Of course, the newbies do not want to hear that they are doing it wrong and reply with wonderful things like "If you cannot tell me how to do it, then shut up, you stupid dipweed!"

But this generation seems to have an unwillingness to read theory, specially in SQL where it is very much part of the foundations. Actually, they don't even read the manuals before they post. Received on Fri Oct 01 2004 - 08:25:28 CDT