Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose_at_free.quelquepart.fr>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:55:38 +0200
Message-ID: <447e0b8b$0$21177$626a54ce_at_news.free.fr>


Robert Martin a écrit :
> On 2006-05-31 11:21:45 -0500, frebe73_at_gmail.com said:
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>>> I don't know Java, but if your statement about Java disadvantages is
>>> true, that's a problem with Java -- not with OO.
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>> In a true OO language there are no first order functions. Some OO
>> languages, like Python, are a little more pragmatic and has some non-OO
>> features too.

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> The fact that Java does not have global functions is annoying at worst.

Fredrik was not talking about having or not having functions but about the fact that Java's method are not objects. Which means you don't have   HOF. Which is a king-size PITA - like almost anything else in Java FWIW. Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 02:55:38 CEST

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