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From: Nick Thurn <nickt@bain.oz.au>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/07
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Todd Hoff wrote:
> 
> If i invented a hammer and 90% of people couldn't use
> it correctly would we blame the hammer or the people?
> It seems those who've "got" OO blame the people. Maybe we
> should blame the hammer. Maybe OO just won't work in
> the mass market of building applications. Not that it
> can't, but that it doesn't work often enough to make it
> universally appropriate.
> Todd,

I think it is the expectations placed on the people. 
Michaelangelo user a hammer and chisel to produce great art.
I use it to bang a hole in my kitchen wall. If I expected
great art I would be disappointed. 

The expectation that *all* those who use OO should be producing
reusable, high quality stuff is false however it appears IME
to be (or at least have been initially) the case. 

For the "average" programmer OO should be mainly using not 
creating. Of course it's chicken and egg, something must be
created to be reused.

cheers
Nick (my opinions only)
"If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the ...."

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