[Harbour-users] Re: ORMs (from "thread" GUI programming)

[pete_westg]

στις 17/03/2010 00:56, O/H dougf at people.net.au 
έγραψε:
 >   Hi all
 >
 >   Its nice to see that a discussion that started out with some highly
 > questionable
 >   assertions about OOP has turned right around to a discussion of ORMs
 > which
 >   essentially extend the OOP concept.
<snip>

Interesting (I mean it) lesson on OOP basics.
What I' d have to point out, from an old clipper-programmer's POV,
is that OOP introduces a *structured complexity* which in some/many 
cases is unnecessary, wasteful in resources, and infrastructure/learning 
demanding.
(not to mention those tongue-tie, virus-like "T"s that dominates the 
classes name-space for absolutely useless reasons denoting an immanent 
adoration to stereotypes, which is one of the unwelcome features of OOP 
model. But again, maybe I'm wrong since i am not a theorist of 
programming art. That said, i feel just fully covered by Roberto Lopez 
phrase that  "regarding OOP, I guess that we must open our minds to new 
ideas and programming paradigms. To write an operating system service is 
a very different task that creating a simple database application.
IMHO, should be obvious for someone, that an unique programming 
model/paradigm, could be not able to suit the programmers needs for all 
situations."

regards,

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Pete