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,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: richieb@ritz.mordor.com (Richard Bielak) Subject: Re: Real OO Date: 1996/05/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152472321 references: organization: Mordor International - Jersey City, NJ newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1996-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >Bob said > >"Well, words change their meaning, and get additional meanings. After >all, think about an Italian chef admonishing us that "spaghetti" is >really a kind of pasta, and the term shouldn't be evilly hijacked to >talk about gotos. I've seen the term "spaghetti" used quite a few times >to describe messy multiple inheritance patterns." > >Surely someone can come up with some colorful new image for messy >code of this type. It needs an appropriate term. Calling it spaghetti >coding might be unfair to spagehetti :-) > I've heard OO designs called "spagehetti and meatballs" since OO diagrams are collections of circles connected by arrows. Another image I like is the "plate of squid", each squid representing an object/class, 'cause if you pick one up you'll drag along whole bunch of others... ...richie -- * richieb@ritz.mordor.com - at home | Richie Bielak * * richieb@calfp.com - at work | * * >> If it were readable, it wouldn't be called "code". (me) << * *------------------------------------------------------------------*