Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[David Given <dg@...>]

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Olivier Galibert wrote:
[...]
> Perhaps because these "standard answers" are high-grade bullshit?  A
> pizza, a car or a (physical) window has never been part of a
> program[1].  Equating structuration primitives with physical unrelated
> objects is not going to tell you how to use them or even what they're
> useful for in the first place.

The C++ FAQ Lite contains essential reading on this subject, and
explains clearly why the intuitive sense of inheritance doesn't actually
help. See 21.6 to 21.11 here:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/proper-inheritance.html#faq-21.6

The short summary is:

Q. Does Circle subclass Ellipse?
A. Fish.

(Doesn't require detailed C++ knowledge!)

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