Subject: Moving from Procedural to Object-Oriented (Was Re: Icon Wish
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Andrew's post rings close to home, as my division is considering a move from a procedural language to an object-oriented one. Accepting that on the one hand a LARGE system may benefit from the benefits of the object-oriented approach, while not forgetting that fads occur in all walks of life, including programming, I would appreciate if anyone in this group has seen the benefits vs the costs of moving from procedural to OO. Maybe also the "be sure to avoid" things. For my part, I see the advantage of hiding data and reusing code, but this can be done with structured code and well-crafted libraries.