Was there supposed to be a disclaimer stating someone else did this before?
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Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Perhaps you can point to a place where someone has claimed OOP is the original means of
reusing code?
No one will claim this in such an acurate way, but one can read alomost every where,
like for instance here: http://www.developerfusion.com/show/80/3/
that "OOP allows developers to reuse code and data together through inheritance."
Now this tends to make people believe that code reuse was not allowed or possible before OOP and inheritance,
and this is just not true.
Then another one:
By inheriting from predefined objects, developers can more rapidly construct complex applications.
Since writing new code always has the potential for incorporating bugs, reusing tested code minimizes the chances of additional bugs.
This is absolutely fallacious: this almost claims that there was no predefined objects before OOP and that one had to
"rewrite code" in order to reuse it.
This not only completely false, it is absolutely ridiculous.
Wether some code lies inside a library, in another part of the code or in an OOP object,
one can reuse it AND make bugs by not using it the right way, just as well.
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