From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-01-23T23:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: OOP UI Design

On 1/22/02 10:37 PM, "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@rubyxml.com> wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Gehlker [mailto:gehlker@fastq.com]
>>> Anyone have comments?  How do you impliment your user interfaces to
>>> objects?
>> 
>> Ho Hum. Yet another young Turk who knows a whole bunch more about OO
>> programming than Alan Kay who both coined the term 'Object Oriented' and
>> first formally described the MVC pattern.
> 
> Are you referring to Holub?  Say what you will about his ideas, but
> don't dismiss the man outright.  He knows a thing or two.

Believe me, I know that. I have read Holub with interest and respect in the
past. *This article*, though marked a big departure from his usual style. It
struck me as deliberately sensationalized, more 'Web Journalism' than
substance.

Cf, for example, "Getters and Setters are *Evil* (emphasis in original). I
find this kind of writing very easy to dismiss. It's bombastic, it's
unsupported by argument or examples, and it pretends that read accessors are
as serious a violation of encapsulation as write accessors merely (AFAICT)
to turn a phrase.

Note also the anti-academic posing. Sort of dishonest for a Berkeley prof.
-- 
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity
that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to
trees and plants. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)