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- Item 1093490 30-June-88 15:26
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- From: WILSON6 Wilson, Dave - Personal Concepts
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- To: D0795 Double Centre Surveying, Dev
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- cc: MACAPP$ MacApp Interest List
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- Sub: More object-oriented design
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- John,
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- Thanks for your reply about the 100-method limit. I agree that the pressures
- of getting a product out the door often overwhelm our desire to do "good"
- object-oriented programming. However, let me cheerfully argue with you anyway.
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- The point about careful design using relatively small Classes is that a good
- design makes the coding and debugging easier. Dealing with Classes that have
- relatively few methods makes your programming easier, and you will get the
- product done more quickly. Also, structuring the problem solution with
- reusable code blocks means that the next project will get done more quickly.
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- I do not have an academic interest in MacApp (I have never even taken a
- Computer Science class) - my interest is in writing Macintosh applications
- quickly and efficiently. And my claim is that good object-oriented design will
- help.
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- I also agree that compiler and linker limits like these are a pain. What good
- will it do us in two years to have 500 MB of RAM in our Mac IV's if CODE 0 is
- still stuck at 32 KB? I hope we at least have a 32-bit Memory Manager by then.
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- Dave
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