Re: The Gist of Object Oriented Programming

From: Jeff Schwab (jeffplus_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:57:55 -0400

Mark A. Gibbs wrote:
>
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>
>> If the effort is to gain the reader's interest as quickly as possible,
>> why do you think he or she will keep reading past an opening sentence
>> full of unfamiliar and as-yet meaningless technical terms?
>
>
> I would assume that they are reading that sentence because they intend
> to learn what object-oriented programming is. And the idea isn't to gain
> the reader's interest, it's to acquaint them with the concepts.

I haven't assumed anything about the reader's motivation. Depending on
context, then, either of our approaches might be more appropriate.

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