Re: Clean Object Class Design -- Circle/Ellipse

"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message news:cCxf7.65$wH.16875642_at_radon.golden.net...
> >> To put it bluntly, Date is not the confused person.
> >>
> >I've been critical of Date in the past (and often been called on it :-),
> >but I have to agree with this. The interesting question is not
> >whether or not he is confused, its whether or not he is irrelevant.
>
> With the database industry rapidly degenerating toward navigational
> databases, I think Date is as relevant and important today as he has ever
> been.
>
> I rue the day he will no longer have the energy and will to stand against
> the darkness. I can hardly hope that anyone else as clear thinking,
> articulate and resolute will come along to pick up the torch.

[Knee-jerk response to pull the chain of a true-believer]

Perhaps the next torch-bearer will actually have some experience with OO languages and won't be as shrill.

Marc was right about that, btw: I remember reading sections of Date's book(s) (where he was soapboxing) and thinking "Date just doesn't know Smalltalk and he just hasn't thought about pattern X, Y, and Z to do what he is proposing". I was nodding my head to Date's points and thinking: "Yup, can do". And that was sad, because by criticizing C++ and thinking its OO (:-), he gets written off by an field that could use his help.

[/end knee-jerk] Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 17:22:37 CDT