Re: Entity and Identity
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:15:30 GMT
Message-ID: <mvv9m.467$646.93_at_nwrddc01.gnilink.net>
"David BL" <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:9b20859f-cc23-48cd-a6db-9fe1ae14da61_at_p36g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> I have no idea why an OO programmer would want to pretend that
> employees, companies, departments, teachers or courses are state
> machines running on their computer! It's a ridiculous suggestion.
And yet it happens over and over again. We've seen dozens of cases of OO
programmers in here trying to do exactly that.
If you look around the web, the cases multiply into the hundreds. And not
all of those people are morons.
Again, the article on "the Vitenam of Computer Science" does a better job
than I can at motivating why an OO programmer