As a thought experiment to test this idea, you could think about your current programming paradigm and when you first understood certain aspects of it. The oth

As a thought experiment to test this idea, you could think about your current programming paradigm and when you first understood certain aspects of it. The other day I wrote "...you probably need to do a large project to feel the effects of a methodology or programming paradigm. Subclassing didn't make any sense when penguin was a subclass of bird (a subclass of animal). It made sense when I got all the functionality of UIView but could still customize it, and call NSObject methods like [object class] that I wouldn't have thought I'd needed at first."