[PRL] Bob Harper's new blog

[Duncan Mak]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarshall at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The reason not to teach OO style is because it encourages poor
> programming practices, discourages simple uses of FP concepts
> and prevents more complex uses of FP concepts.
>

I assume you're talking about a style embodied by languages like Java
and C#.  What if some language(s) instead?

Would languages such as Smalltalk or Javascript also encourage poor practices?

If those languages were taught, is it fair to call them object-oriented?

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Duncan.