From: Xyvind Teig (Oyvind.Teig_at_email.domain.hidden)
Date: 1998-08-28 13:38:35
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Hi
Object orientation is here to stay, after all,
it was invented by Nygaard/Dahl with Simula in
the sixties (?!) They are Norwegian, not
Danish like Stroustrup.
We know that the occam concept also is a proven
paradigm. Except the world hasn't embraced it.
See here:
"He waited. I scrolled through the code. Then
I scrolled some more. Object-oriented soft-
ware: small hunks of code, understandable
¨ only if you know a whole hierachy of logic.
Tiny window, fifty-line viewport, to see
little blocks in an elaborate pyramid. Murk
and confusion."
Helen Ullman, Close to the Machine, p112
Read the book. It's terri/fic/ble.
This is right, but such quotations don't get
us ahead. Is occam 3 work dead, in the sense
that there is not any purpose of trying?
Why I am saying this, I'm only a user out in
industry. We use everything that works.
But it must be existing.
Oyvind
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