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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>
Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:20:24 GMT
Date: 2001-12-18T16:20:24+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1KT7.543$DR.227521653@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
> David C. Hoos wrote (in an e-mail to me):
<snip>
> The paper claims that code reuse is the critical benefit of OOP.
> This is nonsense, implying, among other things, that OOP has
> an "eat your spinach" flavor - that it's use in a project is primarily
> for the purpose of aiding future projects. I would suggest that
> OOP's critical benefit is run-time polymorphism.

IMHO, the critical benefit of OOP is the supported separation of code that
will change from code that need not.  Run-time polymorphism is the means to
that end, not the end itself.





  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-18 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-17 10:22 Ada / C++ comparison paper Martin Dowie
2001-12-17 14:42 ` Frode Tenneboe
2001-12-17 22:07   ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-17 22:34     ` David C. Hoos
2001-12-17 22:37     ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18  0:54       ` Ed Falis
2001-12-18  9:30         ` martin.m.dowie
2001-12-18 14:49           ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-18 17:51           ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19 16:10             ` Greg C
2001-12-20 14:41               ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-20 20:16                 ` Greg C
2001-12-19 20:44             ` Wes Groleau
2001-12-19 20:47               ` Ed Falis
2001-12-20 18:16                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 19:12                 ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-18  1:16       ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-17 22:52     ` Matthew Heaney
2001-12-18 15:47     ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 16:20       ` Pat Rogers [this message]
2001-12-18 17:00         ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-18 17:28           ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-12-18 19:40         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-18 20:25           ` Hyman Rosen
2001-12-19  0:53           ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19  1:47             ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-19 18:20               ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 19:39                 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-19 19:38                   ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-19 20:51                     ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 17:56                       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-20 18:48                         ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-20 19:20                           ` Brian Rogoff
2001-12-21  3:16                             ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore) Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21  3:12                           ` Implicit instantiation (was Re: was " Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21  2:55                       ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:22             ` was Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper anymore Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:57               ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 17:44               ` Richard Riehle
2001-12-21 17:51                 ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-19 18:20       ` Ada / C++ comparison paper Mark Lundquist
2001-12-20 20:27         ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-20 20:59           ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:26             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 14:32               ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 15:11               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-12-20 22:30           ` tmoran
2001-12-20 22:36             ` Marin David Condic
2001-12-21 14:23             ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21 18:46               ` tmoran
2001-12-21 19:09                 ` Ted Dennison
2001-12-21  2:46           ` Mark Lundquist
2001-12-21 14:28             ` Ted Dennison
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