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- From: rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Is C++ "for the rest of us" ?
- Message-ID: <rmartin.714276372@thor>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:06:12 GMT
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- rons@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ronald Schoenberg) writes:
-
- >It seems to me that an important distinction exists between those who
- >write classes (who are expert in C++) and those who use them (who
- >don't have to be).
-
- I don't agree with this philosophy. I don't think that OO divides
- programmers into "class writers" and "class users". In any
- cooperative effort, where software is split into subsystems and teams
- are assigned to write those subsystems; the subsystems will have to
- communicate with each other. Thus, each team will have to write
- classes which will be used by the other teams.
-
- A real object oriented application is not composed of a few classes
- glued together with a lot of c-like functions. It is a set of
- interacting classes. There should be almost no executable code which
- is not a method of a class.
-
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