Re: PHP OOP

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On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Stuart <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/2/9 tedd <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi gang:
>>
>> At the college where I teach, they are considering teaching OOP, but they
>> don't want to settle on a specific language.
>>
>> My thoughts are it's difficult to teach OOP without a language -- while the
>> general concepts of OOP are interesting, people need to see how concepts are
>> applied to understand how they work -- thus I think a specific language is
>> required
>>
>> I lean toward C++ because I wrote in it for a few years AND C++ appears to
>> be the most common, widespread, and popular OOP language.
>>
>> However, while I don't know PHP OOP, I am open to considering it because of
>> the proliferation of web based applications. My personal opinion is that's
>> where all programming is headed anyway, but that's just my opinion.
>>
>> With that said, what's the differences and advantages/disadvantages between
>> C++ and PHP OOP?
>
> C++ is a good option, but if OOP is the focus it might be better to
> use Java or similar where you don't need to worry so much about memory
> management. If you're dealing with people who know C then C++ will
> work well, otherwise not. The worst thing you can do is skip over the
> details of C++ development because you want to focus on OOP. You'll
> end up with a bunch of people who *think* they can code in C++ but
> really haven't got a clue.
>
> Personally I'd have preferred my university to use Smalltalk, but none
> of the professors knew it so I had to teach myself. It's the original
> and IMHO still the best implementation of OOP concepts around.
>
> -Stuart
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"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I
did not have C++ in mind."
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