Introduction to OOP

Chapter 1: Thinking Object-Oriented :

What lead to the discovery?

Why did the APL programmer find the better solution?

Fortran programmer was blinded by a culture that valued loops, simple programs
Sorting is a built-in operation in APL, good programmers try to find novel uses for sorting

The fundamental point is that the language you speak leads you in one direction or another.

But what about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that says there are some thoughts you can express in one language that you cannot express in another?