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OO patterns with Python

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Feb 12 13:00:21 EST 2003 
In article <just-D9CB4B.23360311022003 at news1.news.xs4all.nl>,
Just  <just at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>Python should be perfect for you. I came to Python from Basic, 
>assembler, Pascal, PostScript and a bit of C; objects were mostly new to 
>me when I started with Python. Friends had shown C++ and SmallTalk but 
>that had totally the wrong learning curve for me (being a lazy amateur 
>programmer). Python makes it real easy as it isn't _purely_ OO, in the 
>sense that you don't have to write a class to get "hello world" going. 
>First you start to _use_ objects (eg. files, lists), learn what methods 
>are. Then you learn what the mechanics of classes are, and you will 
>slowly learn how to factor things into objects, and at that point 
>patterns become interesting. Python is great for learning OO gradually.

Of course, you had a built-in advantage learning Python, being....






....Dutch.
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