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From: ell@access5.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1996/12/31
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Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
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Ian Joyner (i.joyner@acm.org) wrote:
: Ell wrote:
: > 
: > Ian Joyner (i.joyner@acm.org) wrote:
: > 
: > : What made me think of this was that Bill Gates stated in his book that
: > : Boeng designed the entire 777 aircraft using one gigantic electronic
: > : document! Physical engineering disciplines have made good use of
: > : computing technology, it's about time software engineers followed
: > : the same path... better and more productive languages and environments,
: > : and stop defending archaic 25 year old languages from another era.
 
: > I find some 25 year languages like C++ very useful even today.  A lot of
: > following a good OO paradigm is in how tools are used and approached.
 
: And people can still drive model T Fords, and fly WWI planes. 

I find the key aspects of C++ to be within the parameters of the
_progressive_ OO paradigm and practice.  In many ways C++ has led and
still leads in the expression and implementation of many significantly
useful OO concepts.

Elliott