All the nominalists in the house put your hand(s) in the air
While everyone else is off at FOWA at the ExCeL Centre in the DoCkLaNdS, I’m here in the library reading a book about universals or properties and for some reason, my mind wanders and ends up with a Jeremy Keith reference about teaching JavaScript to non-programmers: This term, “method.”: if anybody’s familiar with object-oriented programming, you’ll know what a method is. But who’s familiar with object-oriented programming? That’s complicated stuff. It’s easy to bluff; it’s really easy to bluff methods (and “properties” is the other one). And, if you can start talking about methods and properties, you sound like a real programmer.
I had this funny feeling that we’ll eventually have to explain what functions and variables are to programmers who have been fed a diet with nothing but OOP (hey, Java, I’m looking at you, kid).
And, yes, this post is minimalist and content-free, and just a cheap way of being able to have a silly headline.
