On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:14:04 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot 
wrote:
> 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).

These days I would recommend IO over Self.

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