Re: CoBOL moved to OO

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:30:20 GMT

On 2-Jan-2004, "Judson McClendon" <judmc@sunvaley0.com> wrote:

> I don't say all of those failures are due to OO, but primarily due to the
> almost exclusive use of three relatively new technologies for most new
> development: GUI, Client/Server, and OO. In all three, complexity is
> significantly increased, development costs are much higher, and in the
> case of the first two at least, reliability is considerably poorer. Beyond
> that, the reasoning goes:

I'm not that sure development costs are much higher - except for the fact that
development goals tend to be much bigger.

> I'm simply saying that we should use the best tools for the job, be it
> old or new, and that a new tool almost never completely obviate the
> need for the old tool, it merely reduces the need.

The trouble with this is defining "the job".