[Grace-core] Reader comment on Grace: A Manifesto for a New Educational Object-Oriented Programming Language

[James Noble]

> Did anyone respond to this?  Should I?

no-one has responded on the blog - and you could if you liked, I guess.

I'd prefer to start populating out blog though!

J


> 	Andrew
>
> On 29 Oct 2010, at 14:50, Jack Rosenberger wrote:
>
>> Dear Alex, Kim and James,
>>
>> I’m passing along the below reader comment on my CACM post abt  
>> Grace, http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/100389-grace-a-manifesto-for-a-new-educational-object-oriented-programming-language/fulltext 
>> , in case you’re interested in responding.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>> --
>>
>> As a professional developer with ~20 years of experiencing, I'm  
>> part of the movement that wants to de-emphasize object-oriented  
>> programming in favor of functional programming. I say this as  
>> someone who was once convinced that OOP is the best modularity  
>> approach for software (and I flirted with aspect-oriented  
>> programming for a while...). Therefore, I would prefer a teaching  
>> language that emphasizes functional programming over object- 
>> oriented programming, not the other way around.
>>
>>   — K Wampler, October 29, 2010
>>
>>
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