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letters to the editor DOI:10.1145/1839676.1839678 how to think about objects T hough I agree with Mordechai Ben-Ari s Viewpoint Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever! (Sept. 2010) saying that students should be introduced to procedural programming before object-oriented programming, dismissing OOP could mean throwing out the baby with the bathwater. OOP was still in the depths of the research labs when I was earning my college degrees. I was not exposed to it for the first few years of my career, but it intrigued me, so I began to learn it on my own. The adjustment from procedural programming to OOP wasn t just a matter of learning a few new language constructs. It required a new way of thinking about problems and their solutions. That learning process has continued. The opportunity to learn elegant new techniques for solving difficult problems is precisely why I love the field. But OOP is not the perfect solution, just one tool in the software engineer s toolbox. If it were the only tool, we would run the risk of repeating psychologist Abraham Maslow s warning that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem tends to look like
Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Nov 1, 2010
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