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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,7248e7bb77d059e8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Ralph Cook Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: <32A82932.4A73@mci.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202684669 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32A5A86A.1AF1@shef.ac.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: CNCI at MCI mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: ralph.cook@mci.com newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Date: 1996-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Harry Protoolis wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:35:54 +0000, Ahmed wrote: > >Harry Protoolis wrote: > >All what I have found are examples that show OO is workable, for me this > >is not an evidence to the significant difference" > > Sorry, if it's hard evidence you want you probably need to wait another > ten years or so at least. However, the anecdotal evidence is that OO is > at least as good at getting the job done as conventional techniques, and > (very) occasionally spectactularly better. And occasionally spectacularly worse. And to say that individual projects like this have succeeded or failed does NOT "prove", or even "show", that the language environment used is "good" or "bad". rc -- When I DO speak for a company, I list my title and use "We".