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From: sw@smds.UUCP (Stephen E. Witham)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Reusability considered harmful??(!!)
Summary: Object-oriented, si; programming, no.
Keywords: Reusability, Division of Labor
Message-ID: <318@smds.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 91 19:27:26 GMT
References: <6108@stpstn.UUCP> <4842@cui.unige.ch>
Organization: SMDS Inc., Concord, MA
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In article <4842@cui.unige.ch>, oscar@cui.unige.ch (Oscar Nierstrasz) writes:
> Furthermore,
> the emphasis on "software construction" gets us away from the idea that
> we must always be "programming" to build applications (another thing wrong
> with the term "object-oriented programming").

Hooray!  To paraphrase, the problem with object-oriented programming is the
programming.  It's only halfway to a new paradigm.  Even Brad Cox
constructs his software by programming.  But someday soon we'll have
"component software" (as distinct from software components) by analogy to
component stereo--software the user plugs together.  And maybe "software
composition" or "software compositing."

--Steve Witham
Not-the-fault-of: SMDS, Inc., Concord, MA