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From: [e-mail] (Bradley K. Sherman)
Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
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Organization: Remote Fusion Reactor Reverse Entropy Associates
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 20:17:58 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>,
John Maling <[e-mail]> wrote:
...
>However, since then I have 'seen the light'. OOP is indeed The Way (at
>least until something better is created). I was converted by <free plug
>time> Robert Martins book, 'Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications
>using the Booch method.' I had periodically read books on OOD and always
>missed the point, but Martins book lit my head up like a Christmas tree. I
>had one of those 'Ahhhh!' experiences. Quite literally, I woke up sleepily
>one early morning- sat on the edge of the bed, and suddenly the whole
>concept of what makes OOD so good just hit me. Any parent of a newborn
>whose baby cries in the night knows well the effect of being transformed

Not to be intentionally offensive but this sounds like
psychobabble.  Please enlighten us, oh master, on what
the "whole concept of what makes OOD so good" might be.

Perhaps you could make an attempt to be scientific about it,
or is this one of those extrasensory things that disappears
when skeptics enter the room.


    --bks