From: Nicholas Collin Paul Gloucester <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: usefulness of "data hiding"
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:21:36 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2009-01-16T17:21:36+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrngn1gih.d5q.Colin_Paul_Gloster@Bluewhite64_for_Gloster.GIAN.fis.priv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 72f07ba4-f06d-44bf-9759-0e6f0d0426d0@h20g2000yqn.googlegroups.com
On 2009-01-16, Russ P. <Russ.Paielli@gmail.com> wrote:
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|"Hello," |
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Hi,
It has been a long time since I seemed to notice a post from you here.
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|"[..] |
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|I've tried to explain to them why data hiding can be useful, but I |
|just get back a lot of flak. If any of you are interested and have the|
|time to educate them, I'd be interested in your replies to the |
|following post, which was a reply to a post of mine. The link is |
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|http://groups.google.com/[..] |
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|Here is an excerpt: |
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|*nothing* is idiot-proof." |
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He has got you there.
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|" Heck, how many Java "OO" programs with dumb |
|getter/setter pairs for _each and any_ attribute ?" |
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Ditto.
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|"> As I said before, enforced encapsulation may not be appropriate for|
|> every application, but it is definitely appropriate for some. |
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|No. It is appropriate for dummy managers hiring dummy programmers. The|
|project's size and domain have nothing to do with it. |
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|> Not |
|> every door needs a lock, but certainly some do. |
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|You only need locks when you don't trust your neighbours." |
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Russ, it may be too hard to get through that machoist Python programmer's skull.
Good luck trying anyway,
Colin Paul Gloster
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-16 0:51 usefulness of "data hiding" Russ P.
2009-01-16 1:08 ` Russ P.
2009-01-16 1:33 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-01-17 19:05 ` Marc A. Criley
2009-01-19 16:15 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-01-16 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-16 23:23 ` sjw
2009-01-17 8:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-18 13:07 ` Graham Stark
2009-01-18 14:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-16 17:21 ` Nicholas Collin Paul Gloucester [this message]
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