guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) (10/14/89)
I gave a talk at an OOPSLA '89 workshop in New Orleans last week entitled
"Twenty-Five Reasons Why Object-Oriented Programming Isn't Ready For
Commercial Use". I'd be happy to send a copy of my vugraphs to anyone
considering committing a real programming project to OOP.
Cheers, Scott
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guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes: >I gave a talk at an OOPSLA '89 workshop in New Orleans last week entitled >"Twenty-Five Reasons Why Object-Oriented Programming Isn't Ready For >Commercial Use". I'd be happy to send a copy of my vugraphs to anyone >considering committing a real programming project to OOP. Why not post the list (with commentary) to the net? I wish I'd seen the talk. It might be quite interesting to those of us who are already in the middle of major programming projects using OOP (ours is an operating system...). Of course, we _are_ in a university environment, but it's hoped that the code we're producing will see the light of day someday... --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1989 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.
msellers@mentor.com (Mike Sellers) (10/17/89)
John Coolidge writes: >guthery@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes: >>I gave a talk at an OOPSLA '89 workshop in New Orleans last week entitled >>"Twenty-Five Reasons Why Object-Oriented Programming Isn't Ready For >>Commercial Use". I'd be happy to send a copy of my vugraphs to anyone >>considering committing a real programming project to OOP. > > Why not post the list (with commentary) to the net? I wish I'd seen the > talk. > > It might be quite interesting to those of us who are already in the > middle of major programming projects using OOP (ours is an operating > system...). Of course, we _are_ in a university environment, but it's > hoped that the code we're producing will see the light of day someday... > > --John I agree with John. I've been involved in a large (multi-100K-lines of code), commercial, prime-time project in C++ for almost 3 years, so I'd like to discuss your "25 reasons." (The project is a 3D geometric modeling and analysis system sold under the name of Package Station). I'm not trying to start a flame war (really), but on the face of it I'd say the relative success of certain commercial projects belies the title of your talk. Or were you aiming at a specific type of object-oriented programming? In any event, I'm sure your points contain solid information that could help us all view our own OOP efforts more effectively. If you don't mind, I think this forum is the perfect place to discuss issues such as this one. -- Mike Sellers ...!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!msellers Mentor Graphics Corp. msellers@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM Electronic Packaging and Analysis Division -- AutoSurface Project "Amor est magis cognitivus quam cognitio"