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From: tatem@csc.ti.com (Joe Tatem)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: The Emperor Strikes Lethe
Summary: Objection, your honor!
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.180731.20662@csc.ti.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 18:07:31 GMT
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In article <43.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes:
>OOP does seem
>to be harder to debug, harder to test, and harder to maintain when the
>maintainers are not the developers.  

I would like to go on record saying that this statement, in my
experience, is simply not true. Having spent a large part of my
professional life working on other people's code, I have found my life
to be much easier since I began working on object-oriented systems.
Things are not perfect. Programmer discipline still goes a long way.
But I at least have a better idea of where to look for things.


						Joe Tatem
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