From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T00:05:46+09:00
Subject: RE: OOP UI Design



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Gehlker [mailto:gehlker@fastq.com]
> 
> On 1/22/02 10:37 PM, "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@rubyxml.com> wrote:
<snip/>
> 
> 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.

Hm. Perhaps I just willing to cut him some slack on that, or just happen to
like bombastic phrasing. ;)

> 
> 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.

But they *are* evil!  Anyway, such phrasing helps provoke people into
reconsidering what may be unchallenged assumptions.

> 
> Note also the anti-academic posing. Sort of dishonest for a Berkeley prof.

Boy, if professors can't be anti-academic, who can?

James