what is the importance of oop?

Yes, only the reuse along is not the justification for OOP only.
On even more serious note: "What is the importance of..." makes no sense, but this is related to big and complex problems. Do you know the notion of "technosphere"? As the atmosphere was shaped by many organisms, and present day biota do nearly the same things, all use oxigen cycle, etc, we live in technospehere. If we want to produce bolts and nuts, it should of certain thread step, diameter and heat size and shape, from a certain known set, otherwise they cannot be used. At the same time, creating a new kind of bolt is possible, just much more difficult. Same thing is software. Too many things are interconnected, but not in one specific product -- in the whole big culture. In such situation, it's too difficult to talk about "importance".
--SA

:grins:
Heard the word technosphere, understand the concept from your description - have not had occasion to use it yet.

The interesting thing about human-based language is that it's syntax is immeasurably less strict than that of programming languages. Not only can one say something in a way that is awkward and be understood, but one can also say something in a way that is just plain incorrect and still be understood.

Almost certainly, you and the OP share the fact that English is not your first language. Whenever one is communicating with someone else the speaker's age, sex, religion, first language (amongst many other criteria) all have a direct bearing on how something may (must) be interpreted in order to actually understand the idea that is trying to be communicated.


In the case of this question, the OP is from the Philipines, is a very new member & who has just 1 post (this one) under their belt. The sentence is incorrectly capitalized and the seemingly obvious abbreviation what is --> what's wasn't used. Also as you went to great lengths to point out, the question is of awkward or nonsensical phrasing.

I took this information into account when considering the likely depth of their programming background. As a laugh, I made the whole 'loop' play on words. I then tried to use a rough analogy that I considered would translate easily via translate.google and would pose a low barrier to grasping some of the advantages of the OOP approach.

I'm not sure how you understood it, because you cannot use or not use the technosphere: this is something we all live in.

Interesting discussion. As to the lack of strictness and infinite irregularity of native language. Interestingly, it highly depends on the language. Of course, English is also full if irregularities and a great number of unpredictable exclusions and special cases, which one needs just to know. At the same time, in you compare English with Russian, English looks like almost absolutely regular next to Russian. Russian is something which is almost impossible to learn. (Of course I make mistakes in English and not in Russian, but this is relatively rare: an average Russian person makes good amount of mistakes in Russian, or try to simplify the speech to write it; and makes some mistakes orally; I don't even mean people speaking local dialects.)

Are you talking about effect of the language on knowledge? There is such thing (long time ago, I've read a paper proving that people of tone-based languages (like Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and many more) develop different specialization of brain semi-spheres), but I'm sure the possible adverse effect of such differences can be overcame when it comes to science, technology, philosophy, even part of literature, because the major part real knowledge is non-verbal. Same with OOP... :-)

Thank you for interesting discussion...
--SA

Good point, my 5. :-)
--SA