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- From: kdq@quest.UUCP (Kevin D. Quitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.misc
- Subject: Re: What is Object Oriented Programming? Is C doomed?
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 09:51:25 PST
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- hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- >
- > OOP and C++ is NOT a "silver bullet", any more than "structured programming"
- > was. It is a new tool that gives us the potential for things that were
- > more difficult before, but in and of itself does NOTHING. That is the
- > job of the software designer. If it is done poorly, it is done poorly
- > no matter what the language or paradigm.
-
- This is the heart of the matter: OOP is another device which
- helps mediocre programmers to produce good code. Good programmers can
- also make use of it, but they've *always* produced good code.
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