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- From: bellew@ix.netcom.com (Leo Bellew)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:15:14 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <RMARTIN.96Mar13110714@rcm.oma.com> <4i862r$1evq@saba.info.ucla.edu> <RMARTIN.96Mar15094448@rcm.oma.com> <bksDoE2Fu.GBp@netcom.com> <RMARTIN.96Mar18101127@rcm.oma.com>
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- It seems to me that the economic driving force behind the acceptance
- of OO is the need to create GUI software. Without OO, GUIs are much
- more difficult to think about and code. I wonder if it were not for
- GUIs, we might have evolved to some blend of AI frames and constraint
- languages rather than settling here and now for OO.
-
- Leo
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- On 18 Mar 1996 16:11:27 GMT, rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) wrote:
-
- >In article <bksDoE2Fu.GBp@netcom.com> bks@netcom.com (Bradley K. Sherman) writes:
- >
- snip>
- > The only reason OO has any credibility is that it is
- > almost perfect for managing real estate on our monitors,
- > and we all use monitors.
- >
- >This is quite incorrect. The applicability of OO to GUI systems is
- >not specific. It is simply a manifestation of the applicability of OO
- >to software engineering in general. OO is a discipline which has to
- >do with the structure of software applications, not with the
- >applications themselves.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Robert Martin | Design Consulting | Training courses offered:
- >Object Mentor Assoc.| rmartin@oma.com | OOA/D, C++, Advanced OO
- >14619 N. Somerset Cr| Tel: (847) 918-1004 | Mgt. Overview of OOT
- >Green Oaks IL 60048 | Fax: (847) 918-1023 | http://www.oma.com
- >
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