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Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 27, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> I'm people. I would not read it that way.
>
> Was there supposed to be a disclaimer stating someone else did this
> before?
>
> M
>
> 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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