From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T05:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Highschoolers?


On 12-Jun-06, at 12:08 PM, James Britt wrote:

> ilan berci wrote:
>
>> Finally OO IS REAL LIFE,
>
> Really?   OO is a gross simplification of real life, handy for code  
> organization under various (but not all) circumstances.

People tend to abuse this point of object-oriented languages; they  
treat classes/objects like modules, and quite frankly, it's sometimes  
really annoying to read.

> Luckily, software is not real life.

Phew!

> James Britt

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Jeremy Tregunna
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is the notion that everything has to be sacrificed for speed. In  
computer languages as in life, speed kills." -- Mike Vanier