Re: Web apps on the AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Leif said
>polymorphism is not all that great a concept. It simply boils down to
>supplying the data type together with the data.
<SNIP>

>Again, I'm not trying to trivialize OO. I'm trying to find a way of
>showing people that most of it is not all that different from what
>they already understand.
<SNIP>


I think that it was neat that the MOVOBJ and SAVOBJ were (from the outside
world's perspective) polymorphic.
They were/are?  written in a procedural language.

Encapsulation and Abstraction regardless of the language they are
implemented in I think is the first thing to learn.


John

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