From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Bill Gooch Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/05 Message-ID: <32A702CA.55B5@iconcomp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202525503 references: <585fep$ero@news3.digex.net> <585q57$nau@blackice.winternet.com> x-rtcode: 333ed37032ad78224ea70088 followup-to: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Icon Computing mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: bill@iconcomp.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Date: 1996-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Gridley wrote: > [ Ahmed wrote: ] > >: > Every programmer is tackling the same problem using his own perception > >: > of the problem..his own abstraction.. > > [ Bill Gooch wrote: ] > >: Yes, and the alternative is?... > > > Communication, teams, and a development environment 2 steps beyond ENVY. Good. Can you say a bit more about this? > If all the code that has been written in various shops became available to the > general developing public within 3 months of it's creation, we would have spent > far less time repeating ourselves, and have the most robust development > environment and reuseable code, and have eliminated all other language > competitors (not ST-based). I don't think so (especially about the part in parens, since Smalltalk environments aren't clearly superior to all others - superior to most, yes). > Instead, we are still all solving the same problems > , over and over again. Is anyone interested in building a communal repository > with a system for charging users and rewarding developers for code? We're working on it. Stay tuned. -- William D. Gooch bill@iconcomp.com Icon Computing http://www.iconcomp.com Texas liaison for the International Programmers Guild For IPG info, see http://www.ipgnet.com/ipghome.htm