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- Subject: Re: IS C++ a language for the "average programmer"
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 10:34 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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- In article <rmartin.724431509@thor>, rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes...
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- >
- >This is not a new idea. Calculus is more complex than algebra. Yet,
- >once learned, it alows a whole new ream of concepts to be conveniently
- >expressed. If we did not learn calculus, we would founder in our
- >attempts to describe a large number of phenomina.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Robert Martin Training courses offered in:
- >R. C. M. Consulting Object Oriented Analysis
- >2080 Cranbrook Rd. Object Oriented Design
- >Green Oaks, Il 60048 (708) 918-1004 C++
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- Yes, but does OO _really_ allow you to tackle a more complex problem?
- Or does it just allow you a new "notation" which is conveniently adapted
- to the more complex type of problems? I've never heard of a programming
- goal which absolutely required OO to achieve it -- however, there are
- a large number of math problems which algebra just cannot solve, no
- matter how you manipulate it (assuming, of course, that you don't start
- making simplifying assumptions/approximations).
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