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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOP Not Ready for Prime Time
Summary: Darn, I missed this one...
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Date: 14 Oct 89 16:59:22 GMT
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guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes:
>I gave a talk at an OOPSLA '89 workshop in New Orleans last week entitled
>"Twenty-Five Reasons Why Object-Oriented Programming Isn't Ready For
>Commercial Use".  I'd be happy to send a copy of my vugraphs to anyone
>considering committing a real programming project to OOP. 

Why not post the list (with commentary) to the net? I wish I'd seen the
talk.

It might be quite interesting to those of us who are already in the
middle of major programming projects using OOP (ours is an operating
system...). Of course, we _are_ in a university environment, but it's
hoped that the code we're producing will see the light of day someday...

--John

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