Re: What databases have taught me
From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:51:08 -0400
Message-Id: <671tm3-m1t.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
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> Nice post!
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> The progression you describe above is pretty much exactly the
> progression I went though as well.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:51:08 -0400
Message-Id: <671tm3-m1t.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
Marshall wrote:
> JOG wrote:
>> >> - I started life as a procedural programmer. >> - I adopted OO and soon got the 'aha' click described by R. Martin. >> - I spent years coding large OO projects, with beautiful, elegant >> architectures. >> - I spent further years practically gnawing my arm off attempting to >> adapt my perfect OO designs as requirements inevitably shifted and >> exceptions arose. >> - I finally realised that my 'aha' was utterly illusionary, and that my >> code, being OO, was inevitably and irrecovably imprisoned in a >> hierarchical strait-jacket
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> Nice post!
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> The progression you describe above is pretty much exactly the
> progression I went though as well.
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Where did this lead you to Marshall? Can you give your "elevator speech" about how you develop now in your post-OO mindset?
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Fri Jun 23 2006 - 13:51:08 CEST