Re: OO-Inquisition

coeval wrote:
I am flaggerbasted how Topmind is treated in comp.object newsgroup.
Just for saying OO is not the dreamed "silver bullet" that would fix
all issues in software coding.
Many of posts are very blunt, people overacted, like Catholic Church
during The Inquisition.

I think you are mixing two things:

- object oriented programming which hasn't problem in itself but I agree that some object model do have problems (the so-called closed models).

- inclusive polymorphism and static subtyping. Since the choice of covariance - contravariance types is context-dependent (google for Scala language), you will probably have to wait for a decade or so before something simple and productive arise. And this is also why there is so many religious wars down there on this topic.

May I suggest that you read the paper on the C object System?

a+, ld.
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