From: Henry Gilbert <nospam@...>
Date: 2003-09-13T09:39:18+09:00
Subject: Re: OO Challenge

Link is above there somewhere.
http://tools.devchannel.org/comments.pl?sid=3343&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&tid=39&pid=179#185

(great it was still in my clipboard!)

The article was about Eiffel.
But the guy blasted OO ..
I know from experience that the least you know - the more you think you
know :P
So obviously that guy was whizzing on an ego trip.

He fails to realize that OO is to encapsulate and reduce complexity for
larger programs - not trivial examples.

His example is silly.
As OO is *usually* built on procedural-like code.
Now .. if he were to have an example involving a more complex application
Then he would lose ground - he is cheating, setting the rules - with an example of
20 lines or so.

As I stated I tried VB.NET because you can do *illegal* things 
that makes code more sugary-like.

With C# you can make classes morph into others - while introducing some
ugly parameters. (Perhaps) the solution could have been more concise.

But I was aiming for the solution to be readable when declaring.
That is IMO .. what OO is for. Work hard to make it easier.

I was close to finding a solution - but no EVAL in VB, and didn't want to
thread at MSDN for hours, .. I got sick of Visual Studio .NET slow,
crawling once more -hanging on "Wait 20 minutes ..." (P-OFF MS! grrrr).
 
Refreshing to be here under Linux again :)

Thanks again.

I will look into RUBY more
I am looking for a nice language.
I tried Smalltalk but couldnt get round it. I feel even embarrased about
it :(
Ruby seems to be more my style!

I deffy want to re-write a site which I began with C#.
So any advice on RUBY (ie links) for rendering pages and dealing with Response Fields
is much appreciated.

Of course I will always be searching through posts here trying to learn as much as
poss.

All the best

Henry Gilbert