Re: Topic-Organized Object-Oriented Programming

On Feb 8, 12:31 am, ggro...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 8, 6:09 am, "Booted Cat" <yaoziy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

DAG is always an intuitive generalization of tree.

You have to ignore Topmind on this topic.

He lives in some deluded fantasy world where the OO type regime is
based on trees, when it is as you have stated based on graphs. He
then tries to base much of his anti-OO rants on this delusion.

Is your rudeness necessary?

The original author was not necessarily talking about OO, but
classification trees. I did not imply tree/hierarchy, it was
EXPLICITLY stated by the author of the message.

As far as OO and trees, this blurb from my webpage summarizes it:

"OOP proponents are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they
rely on hierarchies, then they have to face the many limits of
hierarchies. If they don't, then they rely on the chaotic pointer-like
hell of navigational structures that were discredited in the 1970's."


We dare not throw in currently available type substitution regimes
because that would shatter his 'set-based is better and OO cannot
do that' rants too (could book him a place in the looney-bin) ... :-)

OO is not required to have types, let alone substitutable types. But
yes, one can *add* sets to OO, but it can be added to any paradigm or
language if one bothers to write libraries or language extensions. But
OO *itself* is not based on sets, and that is a drawback of OO.


Regards,
Steven Perryman

-T-

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  • Re: Topic-Organized Object-Oriented Programming
    ... He lives in some deluded fantasy world where the OO type regime is ... based on trees, when it is as you have stated based on graphs. ... We dare not throw in currently available type substitution regimes ... language if one bothers to write libraries or language extensions. ...
    (comp.object)
  • Re: Topic-Organized Object-Oriented Programming
    ... He lives in some deluded fantasy world where the OO type regime is ... based on trees, when it is as you have stated based on graphs. ... then tries to base much of his anti-OO rants on this delusion. ...
    (comp.object)