# Old procedure guy

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/old-procedure-guy/30226
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/old-procedure-guy/30226 "2019-10-23T14:52:12Z")
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### Author: ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/old-procedure-guy/30226/2 "2019-10-23T15:04:46Z")

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@wcostrino Hello and welcome. I am similar - I learned Pascal as an undergrad and Fortran as a postgrad.  
But I must say this gently - Julia is not object oriented.  
Indeed as a procedural type of guy you will find Julia very intuitive.

Please see here regarding quoting code

> [@PSA: how to quote code with backticks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530):
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> This is a short post on how to use backticks (` and ```) to quote code, so it is easy to read. This post can be linked to new users who are confused by this feature. Why By quoting your code, you get a monospaced font (which preserves indentation) and syntax highlighting. This makes it easier to read your code and help you. Displayed code looks like this: function displayed\_code(x::Int, y::Int) if x \< y println("x is smaller") else println("or not") end end Inline…

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