... the conventional wisdom. It looks like OO aids programming by organizing code. ...something complicated there's usually *some* OO approach that would be quite ...you make assertions without supporting evidence. OO has "mostly failed" why? In ... to the clearest explanations about OO's promises? What was it ...> confusing terminology, and pronounce that "OO has failed." What you appear ...

...the conventional wisdom. It looks like OO aids programming by organizing code. ...you got the exact opposite message. OO is a mature technology that's...you make assertions without supporting evidence.  OO has "mostly failed" why?  In what...> confusing terminology, and pronounce that "OO has failed." What you appear to... John Passaniti says using the OO approach is simply a different ...

... system greatly benefits from an OO approach. These are real-world...that detect simple contact closures. OO helps here because we can...technologies. And that's where OO comes in. We first defined...is all about, OO is nothing more than a method to...Usually when people talk about OO, they talk about encapsulation, modularity...only thing that benefits from OO-style factoring is desktop GUIs...

... One of the early promises of OO was that great designers could set up OO systems that mediocre coders could then use, and the ...> sometimes get mediocre designers making OO systems that get in the ...is not exactly a flaw in OO, it's a misuse of OO. But the marketing promise that OO would be hard to misuse has...We're supposed to believe that OO hasn't delivered on a ...

... One of the early promises of OO was that great designers could set up OO systems that mediocre coders could then use, and the...> sometimes get mediocre designers making OO systems that get in the ...is not exactly a flaw in OO, it's a misuse of OO. But the marketing promise that OO would be hard to misuse has...We're supposed to believe that OO hasn't delivered on a promise...

... One of the early promises of OO was that great designers could set up OO systems that mediocre coders could then use, and the ... we sometimes get mediocre designers making OO systems that get in the way ...is not exactly a flaw in OO, it's a misuse of OO. But the marketing promise that OO would be hard to misuse ...We're supposed to believe that OO hasn't delivered on a promise...

Bruce McFarling <agila61@netscape.net> wrote: Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> wrote: So you do your IF every time the code executes. But if there is an OO system in place, then it optimizes that selection. And that can be designed so it works equally well in the interpreter as the compiler, so there's no need to go into a state- smart word that only works in a compiler....

... Thomas wrote: I've consistently avoided OO. I've tried to avoid problems that are complicated enough for OO to be valuable. But various recent ...the idea that these days, avoiding OO is like avoiding structured programming. ...to get anybody to believe you. ... OO is a tool. Like many other.... Chuck Moore independently developed an OO system for image processing in the...

On Mar 29, 12:08 pm, Jonah Thomas <jethom...@gmail.com> wrote: So you do your IF every time the code executes. But if there is an OO system in place, then it optimizes that selection. And that can be designed so it works equally well in the interpreter as the compiler, so there's no need to go into a state- smart word that only works in a compiler. Where that and starts to ...

...: Jonah Thomas wrote: I've consistently avoided OO. I've tried to avoid problems that are complicated enough for OO to be valuable. That's similar to trying to ... try. The original source code would be your OO code, and the intermediate source code would be ... \ **Now let's use objects :class OOobject \ OO object factory 4 bytes data :m ...