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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: innocuous Smalltalk questions
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 10:57:34 GMT
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cjdavies@aol.com (Cjdavies) writes:

>>Also, the best development managers I know always train their C++
>programmers in Smalltalk so they fully understand the classical object
>paridigm in action.<

>I usually recommend that people start out with Smalltalk to learn OO
>thinking.  However, it would be a serious mistake to try to write C++ in
>Smalltalk style.  As Stroustrup has pointed out, Smalltalk is the best
>Smalltalk around.  To force fit Smalltalk style upon another language does
>both languages a disservice.

It is definitivly not a good idea to learn Smalltalk if you want to do
C++ and don't want to learn both languages. Of course it is best to
know both, but that only make sense if you learn both so far that you
do some real projects. That are years to go. If you don't want that,
learn the language you're going to use (if you know or are forced to).
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