Re: OO foundation
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:10:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a76097f5-3ccf-431a-ac43-3d27c9f85693_at_e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:10:15 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a76097f5-3ccf-431a-ac43-3d27c9f85693_at_e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 5, 8:13 am, topmind <topm..._at_technologist.com> wrote:
>
> [...] we eventually generally agreed that
> paradigms are more about *constraints* than features. What a paradigm
> *doesn't* allow is often more important to defining it than what it
> does allow. The "no side-effects" rule of Functional Programming is an
> example. If one tries to create a language or tool that allows
> multiple paradigms, it often has to relax such constraints such that
> the essence of the original paradigm is lost.
Nice post!
Marshall Received on Wed Mar 05 2008 - 18:10:15 CET