Wait a minute! Reusability of code and Object Orientation are totally different things!
One might have a library of reusable COBOL subroutines that programmers could cut and paste into their programs. (Or that worked in some other way.) No object orientation necessary. And there are lots of real-world problems that lend themselves to object orientation. I am working on a C++ program at this moment that writes Rexx stem variables via IRXEXCOM. It implements the common convention in which STEM.0 contains a count and STEM.n contains related records of some sort. I instantiate it with a particular stem name. (Thus I can be creating any number of differently named stems in parallel.) It has a put() method that instantiates an SHVBLOCK class to hold the one record being put. It increments the count. It has a finalize() method that calls IRXEXCOM to write the Rexx variables including STEM.0. Is that not a real-world problem? Charles On Sun, 28 May 2023 15:40:28 -0700, Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >The real worl[d] is not object oriented ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
