OOP Transcript

[Dan Shafer]

I have only one semi-sarcastic comment to add to the discussion on 
implementing OOP in Transcript.

When people tried to make an OO version of C, the result was one of the 
worst languages ever foisted off on the programming world: C++. Pascal 
suffered a similar fate.

My conclusion: you can't turn a procedural language into an OO language 
anyone really *wants* to use. Don't try.

I'd rather see someone start from scratch and write a new 
transcript-compatible language that is OO. Bigger task to be sure but 
maybe the end result would be usable.

Dan (ducking back into his own little Smalltalk world)