Darren New wrote:
> David H. Burns wrote:
>> Your points are well taken, I should have said programing is not 
>> *fundamentally* difficult.
> 
> It is fundamentally difficult. 

I disagree strongly!
It's as fundamentally difficult as any
> applied mathematics. 
I disagree here too. I would say that programming is less difficult that 
much
of applied mathematics. And applied mathematics is in general not 
fundamentally difficult.
For sufficiently small problems, you may be able to
> do it in spite of it being fundamentally difficult.

This would seem to contradict the definition of fundamentally difficult.
> 
>> programming is not difficult.
> 
> Then why do you have such a hard time understanding simple things like 
> OO programs? :-)

They do not seem very simple to me, but a number of folk have said they 
are, so I may
have psyched myself into believing they are too hard and complex like 
many students
psyche themselves into believing that, say, chemistry is difficult and 
thus have a hard time with it.
Unfortunately they are encouraged (unconsciously or otherwise) by 
chemists themselves and
even by teachers. To my mind OOP with all its polysyllabic terminology 
is a fad and an obstructive
one -- but it may be that I am wrong and that my attitude has, so far, 
kept me from diving into OOP,
which in reality is relatively easy. :)

David


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