Re: Confessions of an "OO Foreigner"

From: Thane Hubbell (thaneh_at_softwaresimple.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 31 Dec 2003 12:27:47 -0800

"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message news:<bsuoqu$opk$1@peabody.colorado.edu>...
> On 30-Dec-2003, thaneh@softwaresimple.com (Thane Hubbell) wrote:
>
> > In it I apologized to Judson for implying he didn't understand OO.
> > Second I said that OO has not yet fulfilled it's promise - but that it
> > soon will.
>
> What is it's promise?
>
> I have seen lots of promises and believe some but not all of these will be
> fulfilled. Some have already been fulfilled. Some will never be fulfilled.

In my mind - the biggest "promise" of oo - is Reusability. This has
failed in the past because of the inability of designers to actually
perform the task of reusing the objects.