Re: OO fans bashing Joins

topmind <topmindNOtoSPAM_at_technologist.com.invalid> wrote in message news:2b039368.c1798f4d_at_usw-ex0103-018.remarq.com...
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> >Seriously, it can do so IF you succeed in developing
> >abstractions that you can reuse.
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> There is no evidence that OO increases reuse.

Read my above statement again. I even capitalized "IF" for you. I believe I went on to say that if one is bad at reusing code in procedural/structural paradigms, then the same will probably occur with the OO paradigm if they use it.

> There are some types of problems that OO does well at, but I do
> not find these patterns in my niche for the most part.

The mainstream finds the patterns of thought very natural and hence very applicable. Most people think in "OO" terms whether they are using OO or not and whether they know it or not. It's all nouns and verbs mostly.

Tony Received on Tue Mar 14 2000 - 00:00:00 CET