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From: guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Has X Widget Library Collapsed?
Message-ID: <28.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 03:29:27 GMT
Organization: Austin Code Works
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There is a story making the rounds of the X-windows community that
the reason there isn't any documentation on the X widget library is
that no one knows how it works any more; that it is such a twisted
mass of inheritance, mix-ins, and polymorphisms that it is no longer
comprehensible let alone maintainable.  In fact, consideration
is now being given to wholly rewriting the X widget library.

Does this remind anyone but me of the go-to spagetti code days?  
Do you then wonder what the OO version of Knuth's famous "Go To
Considered Harmful" will look like?  How about "Inheritance
Considered Harmful"?  And then aren't you just breathless waiting 
for the flood of structured object-oriented programming papers?  

In the words of Yogi Bera, "It's deja vu all over again."  I
wonder if our bosses will ever catch on.

						Cheers, Scott

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