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From: feldmand@erols.com (Damon Feldman)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/15
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Date: 1996-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
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tmh@possibility.com wrote:
>Daniel Drasin wrote:
>> 
>
>> The problems I've seen with OO projects arise not from the use of OO,
>> but from the misuse of OO.  Programmers trying to use non-OO methods,
>> incorrectly applying OO concepts, etc.

>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

Programming is a technichal discipline and you've got to know what you're 
doing.  By the 90% rule computers themselves would be considered useless.
It's just that all of us here know how to use them.

The question is whether or not spending time teaching OO properly and then 
applying that knowledge is effective or not.  The fact that people don't use 
OO properly when they have inadequate training can't legitamately be used to 
disparage OO.

Damon