From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T18:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: OO vs. procedural programming

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 2:47:15 AM, Robert wrote:

> The more interesting question to answer might be, when to start writing
> your own classes.  That depends on the application.  A simple file filter
> (aka grep and similar) can be written without the intervention of new
> classes.

I tend to create classes even for really simple apps, because Ruby
executes everything as it finds it, meaning procedural code needs to
be organised bottom-up.

Putting things in classes (including a method "main") allows you to
organise your code how you like, and then just call

  MyApp.main

at the end.

Gavin