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- From: rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin)
- 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: 19 Mar 1996 16:44:09 GMT
- Organization: Object Mentor
- Message-ID: <RMARTIN.96Mar19104409@rcm.oma.com>
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- In-reply-to: bellew@ix.netcom.com's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:15:14 GMT
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- >In article <bksDoE2Fu.GBp@netcom.com> bks@netcom.com (Bradley
- >K. Sherman) writes:
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- > 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.
- >
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- On 18 Mar 1996 16:11:27 GMT, rmartin@oma.com (Robert C. Martin) wrote:
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- >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.
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- In article <314e60eb.28306264@nntp.ix.netcom.com> bellew@ix.netcom.com (Leo Bellew) writes:
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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.
-
- I consult with a *lot* of companies who are doing OO. GUI development
- is a very tiny part of what they do. Indeed, many folks have taken
- the opposite approach. They will do their GUIs in visual basic, but
- write the engine behind the GUI using OO in C++.
-
- The economic force behind OO has never been solely, or even chiefly,
- GUI. The economic force behind OO is the prospect of creating all
- kinds of products with higher productivity and higher quality.
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