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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,198c6302c4a0b0d7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-18 08:22:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr11.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3c1dc786@pull.gecm.com> <1008601517.470745@edh3> <1008626816.690418@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Subject: Re: Ada / C++ comparison paper X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.191.176.121 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr11.news.prodigy.com 1008692424 ST000 208.191.176.121 (Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:20:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:20:24 EST Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: TSU[@IONFJVMQVPXJZDBNFXBBZ\LPCXLLBWLOOAFMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:20:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18054 Date: 2001-12-18T16:20:24+00:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:1008690461.380980@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... > David C. Hoos wrote (in an e-mail to me): > 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.