Paul Homer wrote:
It is far more than obvious that OO opened the door to allow massive systems. Theoretically they were possible before, but it gave us a way to manage the complexity of these beasts. Still, like all technologies, it comes with a built-in 'threshold' that imposes a limit on what we can build. If we are too exceed that, then I think we are in the hunt for the next philosophy and as Zed points out the ramification of finding it will cause yet another technological wave to overtake the last one.
I find that a bit depressing: if each tool that tackle complexity better than the previous ones lead us to increase complexity (just because we can), we're kinda doomed. Can't we recognized complexity as a problem, instead of an unavoidable law of nature? Thank goodness we have STEPS project to shed some light. Loup. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
