On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:13:20 -0500
Andy Leighton  wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:32:59 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:36:56 +0100
> > The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> >
> >> On 23/04/18 15:48, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:47:09 +0000 (UTC)
> >> > Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> If you want to learn OO programming I think Java is the way to go.
> >> >
> >> >  For a job yes - to learn what OO is all about learn
> >> > Smalltalk.
> >> >
> >> Not seen many jobs asking for that skill ;-)
> >
> >  Quite so - but you won't find purer OO anywhere. Once you've
> > learned it there it's no problem at all to deal with OO in C++, Java,
> > Perl, Python or any other language.
>
> Although for many it may not help with prototype based languages
> (which also count as pure OOP) but it a different paradigm to
> class based languages.

 Fair point - Self for that I suppose (JavaScript is too many things
to too many people to serve as a paradigm example).

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