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: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,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: tbushell@fox.nstn.ns.ca (Tom Bushell) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/16 Message-ID: <32b4453b.308729067@news.nstn.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 204411945 references: <32B3769F.4EC5@deep.net> organization: Telekinetics newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:55:11 -0800, Tansel Ersavas wrote: >Von Neumann, in vein, started to design a new computer, but >died long before he could finish it. His last work 'The Computer and the >Brain' states his objections to the architecture ironicaly named after >him, while he was frantically working towards a different type of >computer (much like a brain) to be able to deliver these people the >right platform for what they wanted to do. Tansel, I, at least, would be very interested in learning some more about von Neuman's objections to a procedural approach, and what he was proposing as an alternative. (Should be in a separate thread, though.) In other sub-threads, I've commented about the "gap" in abstraction between high level design and code. I believe one of the contributors to this gap is that current design models don't seem to explicitly model the underlying proceedural nature of the hardware they must run on. I've been looking for ways to push a more proceedural structure up into higher levels of the design models. Your post hints at a diametrically opposite approach - perhaps a better one. I'd like to know more. Thanks, -Tom ---------------------------------------------------------- Tom Bushell * Custom Software Development Telekinetics * Process Improvement Consulting 2653 Highway 202 * Technical Writing RR#1, Elmsdale, NS B0N 1M0 (902)632-2772 Email: tbushell@fox.nstn.ns.ca ----------------------------------------------------------