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- From: tonyl@vcd.hp.com (Tony Long)
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:58:46 GMT
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- Richard M. Hartman (hartman@ulogic.UUCP) wrote:
- :
- : OOP and C++ is NOT a "silver bullet", any more than "structured programming"
- : was. It is a new tool that gives us the potential for things that were
- : more difficult before, but in and of itself does NOTHING. That is the
- : job of the software designer. If it is done poorly, it is done poorly
- : no matter what the language or paradigm.
- :
- : -Richard Hartman
- : hartman@ulogic.COM
- :
- I would just add that if OOP design *is* done poorly, the problems
- of wading through virtual functions, overloaded operators/functions,
- inheritances, etc. to debug could be much worse of a nightmare than
- with classical languages!
- But, if mastered, I think the power and usefulness of abstract
- structures will become self-evident, reflecting real-world structures
- to a much greater degree than is evident in "traditional" languages.
- OOP is not for the ignorant, either! Using a tool or a machine
- is not an escape into ineptness--more useful or powerful machines mean
- greater potential for damage!
-
- ---Tony Long---
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