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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d24e07f660698f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kennel@nospam.lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)) Subject: Re: I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"! Date: 1997/08/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 261843623 References: <33C61545.167EB0E7@tower.com> <01bc94e6$9ced0820$287b7b7a@tlo2> <33E1B18E.66B4DEC2@docs.uu.se> <33e4d7ec.1596193@news.deltanet.com> <33E36594.416A@ibm.net> Reply-To: kennel@NOSPAMlyapunov.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California at San Diego Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:51:32 -0600, Ian Nelson <> wrote: :Walt Howard wrote: : :> I think OOP is the terminal paradigm. It is like the wheel. :> We're there. We've arrived at the proper way to build software. :> We may make some minor adjustments in the future but the paradigm :> itself will be our computing core for hundreds, if not thousands :> of years. But that's just speculation of course. : :I kind of agree with this to some extent. I agree and disagree. OO is hardly the terminus, but its useful ideas will remain in some form or another. Historical precedent: Fortran I introduced the "Subroutine" in a high level langauge to the world. We program with nothing like that Fortran, and yet that idea has still remained the single most important idea in software engineering, for entirely legitimate reasons. The only reason that software engineering even exists, of course, is because of the stored program, so I guess that's even more fundamental. -- * Matthew B. Kennel/Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD - * "People who send spam to Emperor Cartagia... vanish! _They say_ that * there's a room where he has their heads, lined up in a row on a desk... * _They say_ that late at night, he goes there, and talks to them... _they *- say_ he asks them, 'Now tell me again, how _do_ you make money fast?'"