Chapter 24. Update Existing Classes with Monkey Patching
I can remember the day I sat down and really understood object oriented programming. It was early in my career. At that point I had probably spent two or three years programming straight procedural code in languages ranging from assembly to the only slightly less primitive FORTRAN. I had heard about this new language called SMALLTALK, which featured things called objects that were somehow grouped together by other things called classes. I spent the better part of a weekend reading all about this new programming paradigm, and on Sunday afternoon I finally got it. I’d like to tell you that it changed my professional life. I’d like to tell you that, but I’m just not that big of a liar. If ...
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