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- From: ell@access4.digex.net (Ell)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.dcom.telecom.tech,comp.arch.embedded
- Subject: Re: Can OO be successful in real-time embedded systems?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 02:49:10 GMT
- Organization: The Universe
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- Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com) wrote:
- : dibald@netcom.com (Dave Baldwin) writes:
-
- : Object-dis-oriented programming is (like some others) intended to hide
- : the hardware from the programmer.
-
- : This is not quite correct. The intention of OO is not to hide the
- : hardware from the programmer. The intention of OO is to provide tools
- : to the programmer whereby he can manipulate the hardware at varying
- : levels of abstraction.
-
- This is possible using Structured Analysis Design, and Programming (SADP),
- though not generally polymorphically, as with OO. The intention of
- Simula, the historically acknowledged first OOPL, (as I understand it) was
- to simulate, or model, a fleet ship distribution network. And in doing
- so, Simula processed information which was useful to the ship fleet
- clients, and owners.
-
- Elliott
-