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Re: Euphoria Object Oriented Programming

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at telenet.be> Jan 02, 2007
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If you add OO to Euphoria, people will have to learn it.
Why? Because sooner or later (probably sooner), they will see Euphoria
code that is object-oriented. How would the base libraries look?
Would they be OO or not? If they are, people will have to learn OO programming
to use them. If they aren't, then wouldn't that look kind of ridiculous?
Having an OO language, with base libraries that aren't OO?

Because of this, I think the main distribution of Euphoria shouldn't have
a full object-oriented system. Keep it simple, like it is now. One possibility
would be to develop a separate object-oriented Euphoria distribution.
That way, people can start with the main Euphoria distribution, and later
switch to the OO distribution, IF THEY WANT TO, or they can stay with the main
distribution, or they can use both. Somebody with more experience in other
OO languages (like Java or C#) could start with the OO distribution, or not.

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