#Incomprehensibility
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Such is the curse of "object-oriented" programming environments. They make
the programmers work-load much, much lighter by adding an additional level
of abstraction (i.e., objects!) to the problem at hand. This tends to
drastically reduce the amount of source code required for an application,
and allows the "masses" to write real, usable programs. The only problem
is that sometimes you can loose the program in all the inter-connections of
those neat little objects! In general, I've found that object-oriented
stuff is great for the guy who first writes it, but when an outsider looks
at it, it is often nearly incomprehensible (the same goes for the guy who
wrote it, 6 months later!).
However, I believe CanDo and its like are generally a Good Thing when
everything is tallied up. There really is nothing else like it on the
Amiga when a non-programmer wants to get his hands a little dirty. I
wouldn't write a relational database w/ it, but for small to mid-sized
jobs, it really is kinda nifty that just about anybody can sit down w/ it
and in no time have something that works.
Whoa, doggie, let's not go slanging object-oriented stuff for "hard to
figure out six months later." One of the reasons you use classes is so
that the maintenance guy doesn't _have_ to figure out what the prima donna
was up to; all that he's got to do is make sure that his fixes accept the
same arguments and return the same results.