This week I am attending a JavaTM Programming Language class SL-275. This is the first time that I have studied an Object Oriented programming Language. And after the first day today I must say I'm quite impressed.
To prepare myself I read the the second chapter of David Flanagan's JAVA In a Nutshell book: "How Java Differs from C". Which I found to be of great help when experiencing Attributes, Classes and Methods today.
It made me wonder... I first learned Fortran 77 in 1987. I stopped using F77 when I learned Pr1me's System Programming Language (SPL, a subset of PL1/G). Which I subsequently stopped using after I learnt The Kernighan and Ritchie: C Programming Language; First Edition. So How long is it going to be before 'C' is but a memory in my not so long past....
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To be honest I stopped using SPL when I left Pr1me Computer. Primos (Prime Operating System) was mainly written in SPL and PLP with bits in fortran, assembler and Modular. Unlike Solaris which is mainly written in 'C'.
