18 Nov 02 18:49, David Noon wrote to Sean Dennis:

 DN> Time for me to put a few tutorial messages and some sample code into
 DN> OS2REXX, it would seem. ... :-)

Sounds wonderful!

 DN> I think I'll write some OREXX-centred tutorials, as that will allow
 DN> people who have been slightly wary of the newer features of REXX to
 DN> try their hand at OOP.

I've been trying to wrap my brain around OOP concepts, but I think I need a
bit of babysitting to get me started.  I think I have a vague idea of it,
but. . .

What I was taught was top-down, structured, modular programming.  (This was
back in the dark ages of COBOL, but I've tried to translate the concepts as
much as I could to programming in other languages such as BASIC, 360/370
Assembler, Fortran, and C.)  Kludges and spaghetti code were anathema, and
I was taught to comment the heck out of everything (not fun when you're
punching IBM cards--I'd rather clean toilets for a living than punch IBM
cards again!).

I guess for starters, what's the difference between OOP and modular
programming? (We can take this to OS2PROG if you'd rather. . .)

Sarah
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