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From: HARNDEN@AUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: dumb app question
Message-ID: <90201.090918HARNDEN@AUVM.BITNET>
Date: 20 Jul 90 13:09:18 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
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i originally posted this to turboc-l, but got no reply. i'm not
sure why. is anyone here willing to provide a kind response?
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i confess i am interested by the idea of what is called Object
Oriented Programming, but, not having tc++ yet, am not convinced
of its unique utility. let pose an application query...
i am currently in systems and modeling. i have a particular interest
in global modeling. it occurs to me that the abstraction of sectors of
the model (environment, population, trade, etc.) into independent
modules with their own input/output/processing functions that could
be arbitrarily organized would be a successful modeling approach.
is this the kind of thing that OOP (like with c++) is for? what else
is it for? how is it different from highly structured, modular, decoupled,
top-down (in other words, 'correct') 'standard' programming?