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From: koops@elf.rice.edu (Ryan Richard Koopmans)
Subject: OOP--What do you think?
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 21:05:16 GMT

I recently purchased THINK C 4.0.  When I looked at their
object oriented implementation of the Mac interface, I was
more than a little bit confused.  I've written lots of Mac
applications before, and I'm comfortable with the traditional
procedural kind of Mac programming.

What I want to know is, is OOP the wave of the future in
programming or just a passing fad?  Is it worth learning
a new way of programming just to use the TCL?

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I like the straight procedural
way.  In all the message passing and things, I feel that the
programmer gets too far away from the machine and works on a
too abstract level.

What do you think?

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