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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: object-oriented this, that, and the other thing
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Date: 24 Oct 89 18:48:49 GMT
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Is it just me, or does anyone else find disturbing the number queries
of the form:
  Does anyone know anything about object-oriented <Topic>?

Where recent instantiations of <Topic> include:
  analysis
  design
  parsers
  security
  testing

Is object orientation such a novel approach that we'll have to relearn
everything we've already figured out?  If so, is it really worth the
effort?

Admittedly, I'm an object-oriented novice.  I've read various
object-oriented articles in Byte and Computer Language, and I even
took a one-day tutorial in C++ at USENIX.  But I've never written an
object-oriented program, and it isn't obvious to me what makes
object-orientation so profoundly different, and presumably, better.

Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)