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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Guthery slams OOP in latest DDJ
Summary: Flame bait - try new things
Message-ID: <128@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 19:04:29 GMT
References: <2664@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1562@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
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I treated the original (DDJ) article as flame bait and tried not to get
hooked.  However, In article <1562@bnlux0.bnl.gov> drs@bnlux0.UUCP
(David R. Stampf) makes an excelent point:
    ... then we still will have learned something.  Either case, we win.

Some forget that progress is only made when people are willing to try new
things, some of which will fail.
    
    	It is kind of scary to think that the Fortran model - one of our
    first tries at programming - was the right way ;-).

Without the will to try new things we'd all be stuck with the Fortran model
-- or worse.  OOP is just one of the ``new things'' (only 20 years old or
so) to try.  Try it.  Make up your own mind.

// marc
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// Marco S. Hyman		{ames,pyramid,sun}!pacbell!dumbcat!marc