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snip In truth I have no solid information about what trade schools teach; what I know is mostly based on their advertisements and on, um, snarky comments by fellow...
This reminds me of a PPOE where we really tightened up the input editing... User: The system is rejecting all of our data! Us: Well, it's full of errors. User: But why can't you...
Correct. I work with about 10 different computer languages and nearly as many ways of dealing with stuff in an average week. If I didn't, it'd probably take half a dozen people of narrower focus (e.g. "IT trained") to do half as good a job in twice the time.
It depends how long it takes a minimum currency unit to suffer from gravity. aka "penny drops"
People seem to be quite different in that respect; regardless of their (outward) intelligence. AFAICT; More a matter of how deeply they've been mired in other ways of thinking. OO is just a different way of thinking to build a tool to solve the same problem. It's "neater" for some problems but a RPITA for others.
OO's another tool on the utility belt. Handy to have if you understand when and how to use it; otherwise it's an incumberance.
Effective problem solving requires ideation; a "brain-storming" process whereby a number of different ways of solving that problem, regardless of how stupid those ways look on the surface. The greater the wealth of tools available; the wider the perspective during ideation. -- "Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign "Laws do not persuade just because X against HTML mail they threaten." and postings Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
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