HARNDEN@AUVM.BITNET (07/20/90)
i originally posted this to turboc-l, but got no reply. i'm not sure why. is anyone here willing to provide a kind response? -------- i confess i am interested by the idea of what is called Object Oriented Programming, but, not having tc++ yet, am not convinced of its unique utility. let pose an application query... i am currently in systems and modeling. i have a particular interest in global modeling. it occurs to me that the abstraction of sectors of the model (environment, population, trade, etc.) into independent modules with their own input/output/processing functions that could be arbitrarily organized would be a successful modeling approach. is this the kind of thing that OOP (like with c++) is for? what else is it for? how is it different from highly structured, modular, decoupled, top-down (in other words, 'correct') 'standard' programming?