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From: timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Should Shapes Display Themselves? [was: Display methods, pro or con...]
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Date: 11 Aug 90 04:21:17 GMT
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User-interface design gurus recommend seperating out the interface functionality
from the underlying program functionality. This, they say, lets the programmer
change one without having to change the other. THis is very useful for
prototyping user interfaces (and this is a GOOD THING, they say).

Now, these guys weren't talking about OOP. They were just reviewing all the
disasters they'd ever heard about in user-interface design. But, I'm willing
to accept their experience and conclude that the view object should be seperate
to the model object.


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