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From: Jeff Miller <jmiller@probe.net>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/06
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Bill Gooch wrote:
> 
> Ahmed wrote:
> >
> > Actually immediat reuse can be acheived to a certain extent with
> > the traditional structural methods if they adopted a good design
> 
> A key phrase here is "to a certain extent."  OO allows
> more effective reuse (less redundancy, less copy-and-edit)
> than alternatives.

This reminds me of a thread we had on the comp.lang.c++ ng a couple
of years ago.

I maintained then, and continue to maintain, that the extent to
which OO tools incrementally promote reuse (C++ as compared to C,
to draw an obvious example) is not in and of itself sufficient to
have any meaningful impact in any large organization.

Effective reuse is substantially a management issue, not a technical
one. OO helps, but organizational and process changes are more
important.

                                             Jeff Miller
                                             Senior Server Architect
                                             CSG Systems, Inc.
                                             jeff_miller@csgsys.com
                                             jmiller@probe.net