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: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,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: Tansel Ersavas Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/20 Message-ID: <32BB2C3D.68CB@rase.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205156577 references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32A71BC6.2D857063@arscorp.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: RASE Inc. mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: tansel@rase.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 (Win95; U) Date: 1996-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jon S Anthony wrote: > > > Can a painting communicate subtle ideas as clearly as literature? > > In general, no. Also, they don't convey abstract ideas too well > either. > > And it is a well known problem that it is rather difficult to convey > information consisting of many dimensions (facets) visually that does > not lose semantic content. 3D even 4D, not too much a problem. > 100-D? Infinite-D? How about transfinite? These are all more or > less trivial to capture algebraically. > > /Jon Well, that explains the popularity of algebra around circles. We use canonical forms of systems to get only the "relevant" information about that system for our certain needs. Nobody is talking about representing the entire information in one diagram, or even representing entire systems with only diagrams. However, I will not debate the usefulness of diagrams. It is trivial dealing with 10,000 lines of code, but if you have a million lines of code, you have no other way but summarize some of the information into some diagrams if you want to communicate them effectively. (Unless of course, you want to stuff them into 100-D matrixes). Tansel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RASE Inc. Clark NJ USA Voice: (908) 396 7145 mailto:tansel@rase.com Fax: (908) 382 1383 http://www.rase.com/ ----Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic--- A.C. Clarke -----------------------------------------------------------------------