Re: Bob's 'Self-aggrandizing ignorant' Count: Was: What databases have taught me

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:04:02 GMT
Message-ID: <6T7rg.6997$pu3.156447@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

topmind wrote:

> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>

>>Robert Martin wrote:
>>
>>>On 2006-06-28 17:09:20 -0500, "Adrian Alston" <nothanks_at_nospam.com> said:
>>>
>>>>I can understand how objects are a sort of state machine but I thought
>>>>OO programs should be predictable. What's this unpredictable bit about?
>>>
>>>It was a snide remark.  The person who made it is known for being a bit
>>>abrasive and prejudiced about the topic of OO.  No programmer *intends*
>>>to make their programs unpredictable.
>>
>>Unless that's the point of the program...

>
> Like a game perhaps? However, when the mideaval dragon escapes in a
> Jeep and shoots at you with an Uzi as he jumps the fence, then perhaps
> it is time to rethink the limits of unpredictability. I think I would
> prefer the game crashes at that point instead.

How about a simulation instead? For things like the weather, climate change, epidemiology, fluid flows around objects like propellers, or the norwegian simulations back in the 1960's that OO was invented for.

As it happens, the person dismissing me as 'prejudiced' is a self-aggrandizing ignorant and a snake-oil salesman. 'Prejudiced' is not quite the right word for him because judgement doesn't even enter his equation. He says whatever nonsense he thinks will extract people's dollars from their wallets and that's about it. Received on Thu Jul 06 2006 - 08:04:02 CDT