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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 11cae8,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid11cae8,public From: Nick Leaton Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/31 Message-ID: <32C929CE.7491@calfp.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206949517 x-nntp-posting-host: calfp.demon.co.uk references: <32A4659D.347A@shef.ac.uk> <32A71BC6.2D857063@arscorp.com> <32A82AFE.255A@possibility.com> <58bq8c$3n6@news.utdallas.edu> <32AA207E.3199@deep.net> <32B3F45C.5140@deep.net> <32B81DA7.6D08@deep.net> <59vr2s$55r@masters0.InterNex.Net> <01bbf4f0$215a1220$298fa1ce@pendleto> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lnag.java,comp.object,comp.software-eng x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > The real practical reasons for not using assembler are: > 1) geniuses are rather rare > 2) the resulting product has a lot of lines of code (4 to 10 times more > than high level languges), which makes it harder to understand > 3) the resulting product is almost impossible for another person to > understand, because of the multi-level programming involved. > Oh, and it is hard to port to machines that don't have that instruction set. Ah he say's retorically, you can get the macros to do it, but then again is that what a compiler does? -- Nick