Re: [TCLUG:13004] AP Comp. Sci.

[Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>]

On 28 Jan 2000, Jon Schewe wrote:

> It is if you're trying to teach OO programming.  I learned C++ in college and
> it was taught as an OO language and things just seemed backwards until I
> leared a language that's closer to true OO, like Java.  Although I know
> smalltalk is much better, it isn't used much outside of research.

I don't mean to preach here, but you should have a look at Python. The
language is super clean, great OO, and is practical. Look at Zope. That's
a Python-based product that is getting huge.

-Tim

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