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From: frobozz@pyr.gatech.EDU (geoff george)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Guthery slams OOP in latest DDJ
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Date: 23 Nov 89 03:04:49 GMT
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Reply-To: frobozz@pyr.gatech.edu (geoff george)
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> He says a lot of things, but one quote: "Stripped of its fancy jargon,
> an object is a lexically-scoped subroutine with multiple mutiple entry
> points and persistent state.  OOP has been around since subroutines were
> invented in the 1940s.  Objects were fully supported in the early
> programming languages AED-0, Algol, and Fortran II.  OOP was, however,
> regarded as bad programming style by Fortran aficionados". 

"Stripped of their fancy jargon, 'break', 'continue' and 'return' statements 
are simply goto statements.  The goto statement has been around since 
programming languages were invented in the 1940s.  It was fully supported in 
the early programming languages (...).  The goto statement was, however, 
regarded as bad programming style by structured programming aficionados."  

Therefore, of course, they are just as bad as goto's, and should be 
eschewed for the same reasons.  

:-)

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