Thanks. This is the best and most concise explanation of the basic 
tenets of OOP that
I have read. Much better, for instance, than that in "OOP for Dummies".
clipka wrote:





>> This seems to be true, where would I find some *real* OOP to look at?
> 
> I don't know whether there exists such a thing as "real OOP to look at".
> Whatever code you look at, if you're not familiar with the language you'll
> probably see more of the language's peculiaritis than you'll see of the
> programmer's original thoughts.

Perhaps I should have said where could I find some simple examples of 
good OOP
programming. Any that would be very useful to me might be hard to find. 
I have some
Python code for producing a Windows GUI "wrapper" around old Fortran 
code. The results
are quite impressive. It's likely that this code would be as good 
example as I can find --
though it's not especially simple.
> 
> Academic languages are peculiar anyway; and non-academic languages tend to
> accumulate traits over time that are peculiar because the original language
> didn't have them.
> 
  The current POV-Ray SDL is so
> well-suited to its basic task that it would be imprudent to go very far from
> that, as far as the effective syntax is concerned.
Amen!


:) David

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