Re: OOP - a question about database access

"Topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> wrote in message news:4e705869.0311082320.466aefd2_at_posting.google.com...
> > 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).

The "it's more intuitive" claim should always elicit a demand for empirical evidence. Usability is measurable and without measurement the claim is meaningless. Received on Sun Nov 09 2003 - 14:08:36 CET