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Subject: Re: Things that OO programming lacks
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> On 14-11-16 19:54 , Simon Wright wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> 
>>> I didn't list event-driven AKA data-driven paradigm in my list of
>>> paradigms, since it is so horrific, that nobody should seriously
>>> consider it as useful.
>> 
>> The event-driven approach to (real-time) software is the only way to
>> build such systems: any other way is bound to lead to confusion and
>> disaster.
>> 
>> £0.02
>
> "No Sale" even at that price (meaning I disagree).
>
> But of course this depends on what, precisely, is meant by
> "event-driven approach".
>
> It is true that any system that must react to asynchronous inputs, be
> they called "events" or whatever, must in its design be "event-driven"
> to some extent. But this does NOT mean that the internal architecture
> of the SW should be based on message-passing, or FSAs communicating by
> events, or anything like that. Such internal architectures
> (unfortunately, often the result of the autocode generators of
> single-minded model-based design tools) can be HUGELY complex,
> inefficient, and beastly to analyse or understand. In my not-so-humble
> opinion.

I was only trying to make as evidence-free an assertion as Dmitry's.

I don't think that we are going to agree on this point, or even have an
actual argument, partly because I'm not in a position to produce any
evidence myself.