Re: D7 Compiler Bug

From: Bjørge Sæther (bjorge_at_hahaha_itte.no)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 02:18:21 +0200

J French wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 17:21:46 -0400, L D Blake <not@any.adr> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> OO just doesn't fit my head very well... I just don't think that way.
>> You do.. and that's just fine with me. Really, no grumbles on this
>> end at all.
>
> I'm not so sure about that, the chances are that you have been
> applying OO principles for many years
> - we certainly were - well before Windows
>
> What is now called 'OO' is really a re-working and re-presentation of
> a very old approach

Writing OO code in a language that doesn't support it does not seem like a
very good idea. Unless OOP is so outstanding that it would justify nearly
any kind of ugly hack ;-)

Noone is talking about a revolution here, only a *slight* improvement. The
magnitude could possibly resemble that of proper use of character case
compared to all upper- or lowercase. ;-)
No, seriously, it's simply a model of grouping things. I believe I'm still
evolving a sense of whether classes are "pure", in the meaning "whether
something belongs in class A or B". I often divide classes into
"type"-classes and "data" - classes, where the structures of the "types"
control the instantiation of the "data" - classes. I just cannot see how I
could have myself trained this way if writing non-OO code. It's like when
constructing a house: "What elements do I connect, and what leans on what ?"
While I do write non-OO code all the time, there is typically a movement
towards objects as the project grows. The downside is of course that the
decision on creating a class model may involve quite some work. But again
and again I conclude that the error was writing all of that spaghetti
instead of doing it properly from the beginning. 

-- 
Regards,
Bjørge Sæther
bjorge@haha_itte.no
-------------------------------------
I'll not spend any money on American Software products
until armed forces are out of Iraq.

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