What's all this fuss about Object-Oriented languages, please?

From: Alexander Damyanovich (azdamyan_at_inetsonic.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:43:23 -0500

This is a concept I've never truly understood. As a former programmer in
traditional procedural-based languages (PL/I, C, Pascal, COBOL among
others), all those classes and objects have me quite confused!! Can
somebody please give me some pointers? Thanks in advance!

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