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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,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: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: Todd Hoff Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/09 Message-ID: <32ABCB1F.5207@possibility.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 203157490 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32A71BC6.2D857063@arscorp.com> <32A82AFE.255A@possibility.com> <58bq8c$3n6@news.utdallas.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Possibility Outpost mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: tmh@possibility.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: 1996-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Steve Heller wrote: > If I invented an electron microscope and 90% of people couldn't use > it, would we blame the electron microscope or the people? In other > words, the complexity of the job that the tool needs to do matters as > well. The analogy doesn't hold as an electron microscope is a specialized tool. OO is not supposed to be a specialized tool but a general methodology for designing and implementing software systems. > Or maybe it's just taught poorly. I've been pretty successful in > teaching OOP to people who don't know it already. Or the flip side, why is it so hard to learn? And if it really takes top teachers working over extended periods of time with individual students to learn OO what is the chance of it being taught properly in the large? ------------------------------------------------------------- tmh@possibility.com | The loyalty of small men can be http://www.possibility.com | bought cheaply, for greed has no | pride. - Michael Kube-McDowell