>>George-
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>>You are from the generation after me. I first learned under the Bowl of Spaghetti (BS) programming methodology of mainframe Assembler and COBOL. So I've gone through BS, SP (Structured Programming), and now OOP.
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>>I must admit I like the last the best (although OOP is not really all that different from SP once you cut through all the jargon).
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>Hi Steve,
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>Actually, I first started in programming in line oriented BASIC, then 6502 assembler. So I know BS programming < g >.When I went back to college in the late 80s is when I first encountered SP.
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>I'll agree with your remark about the lack of differences between SP and OOP. In fact, I know of more than a couple of people (with Ph.D.s in Computer Science) that'll be happy to argue with anyone that OOP grew out of SP. When I first encountered OOP, what struck me was how similar it was to SP, not how different. A lot of the same concepts, though in some ways referred to differently.

Maybe we have a new way for writing up a resume:
BS Programmer 1974 - 1977
Last "Go to" (COBOL not FP) - 7/77
SP Programmer 1977 - 1997
OOP Programmer 1997 ->

Boy that's a long time when you really look at it!