Re: OOP - a question about database access

> No. Just a matter that the greatest benefit of OO is not "quantitative"
> or "metrical", but "qualitative" and "cognitive". Much harder to create
> empirical proof. But there are studies where for the same context that
> the average project posses, OO proved itself superior. See Caper-Jones
> for one set.

The Caper-Jones study is flawed and speculative. Besides, if you take that silly study at face value, then SQL and/or MS-Excel is just as good as Smalltalk.

13+ years of OO being a "mainstream" technology, and the best imperical evidence you have is Caper-Jones? I think you should stick with the "its more intuitive" claim, because that is hard to measure, and reflects my working theory that OO simply maps to some people's heads better (but not all).

If you really want productivity, then my observation (and some empiracle evidence from Ed. Yourdon) is that you let people use tools that best fit their head and hire groups of like-minded thinkers.

-T- Received on Sun Nov 09 2003 - 08:20:57 CET