"Jeffrey Carter" <spam@spam.com> a �crit dans le message de news:yWOnc.14671$V97.11541@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> OOP (which is unrelated to OOD) is really about increasing ease of
> writing at the expense of ease of reading; that's why it's embraced by
> the same coders who prefer C to Ada. Software engineers emphasize ease
> of reading over ease of writing and prefer Ada to C, and don't mind
> having to recompile to achieve that. I agree with some guy named Rosen
> who had an /Ada Letters/ article about what orientation Ada's objects
> should take, and concluded that composition was more readable than
> inheritance. (See also Carter, J. R., "OOP vs. Readability," /Ada
> Letters/, 1997 Mar/Apr.)

Well, I agree with that guy :-). If you remember one of my previous posts, I said "if you don't want tagged types, don't use them".
I am furiously fighting against the "inheritance everywhere" disease. However, the opposite of "inheritance everywhere" is not
"inheritance nowhere". There are cases where inheritance can be useful; I would not describe it as favouring ease of writing over
ease of reading, but rather as favouring flexibility over security. There are some applications where flexibility is a prime
concern.

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