>Not that I am too much of a Norway patriot, but I just can not hold back. Did you know that OOP was a Norwegian invention? It was invented between 1962 and 1967 by two Norwegian professors Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard who developed a language called Simula, the mother of most modern langauges. Read more here
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/simula/simula.html>
>>I'm a big believer that if your a good coder in a different language you'll be a good coder in any language - because it's about the logic and the rest is just syntax. So I was looking for an OOP question that didn't rely on FoxPro knowledge and came up with. Can you describe a deck of cards as objects? Telling me what classes you would create and what properties and methods you would put in each class. To this date only 1 person has ever given me a good response on this question. Is it too tuff of a question or is it a bad question?
'Tis surprising that it is such an old invention! And yet, it seems as if back in 1985, when I started to work with computers, nobody had ever heard of it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)