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#ObjectOriented

    19-Sep-95 17:47:07
Sb: #ObjectOriented
Fm: Greg Comeau@Comeau Cmptg 72331,3421
To: Peter Wade 100265,2740
>> As far as I am concerned, OO makes programs slower, bigger, more buggy, >> … than plain good (not too structured) programming. > >I suppose it is the same trade off between low level efficiency and fast >development that has been going on since programming began. Not necessarily. >I miss programming in Assembler, these days I use a so called Fourth >Generation Language at work, I miss it too, but then a lot of what I do these days would be foolish for me to do in asm. It's simply a matter of where things lay within their goals. >they get worried if I use C. I'm much more worried about programmers than the languages they use 🙁 >But I would expect OO to make programs less buggy. Not necessarily, just in a different realm and light. Remember too, people still write and design programs 🙁