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: f5d71,30c97c79ca78278e X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,e8c725ea56364578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,9aa4a1851f1e4800 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e8c725ea56364578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,9aa4a1851f1e4800 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: abstraction and encapsulation (Re: Will Java kill C++?) Date: 1996/05/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 154975754 references: organization: University of Brighton, UK followup-to: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: 1996-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: . (tmb@best.com) wrote: : In my experience, making designs extensible takes time and effort. It : also makes the design harder to understand for other people. That : cost is worth it if you plan on reusing that software. But a lot of : software doesn't need to be reused, however. [...snip...] Extensibility is important for maintenance too; a lot of maintenance changes involve adding extra bells and whistles which can be a major problem if extensibility *wasn't* designed for. This (IMHO) is a much more important consideration than reuse, which as you said is something that isn't needed that often. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John English , Dept. of Computing, University of Brighton "Disks are divided into sex and tractors..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------