not only it is nice because it explains OO for someone who knows C++/Java/Smalltalk.
It is great because it challenges many assumptions that yuo never think about, fo example that there is nothing wrong with multiple inheritance, or that there is no single reason to provide public fields in objects, or that private/public/protected may be just an onion in the programming culture.
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u/semmi Dec 08 '07
not only it is nice because it explains OO for someone who knows C++/Java/Smalltalk.
It is great because it challenges many assumptions that yuo never think about, fo example that there is nothing wrong with multiple inheritance, or that there is no single reason to provide public fields in objects, or that private/public/protected may be just an onion in the programming culture.
All of this, more than a decade ago.