I have been enjoying the long thread about inheritance where a number of very bright fellows with much experience and knowledge talk about languages and their properties.
But I find myself more and more dissatisfied with this kind of talk. I have spent years in such late night dormitory discussion. It is certainly enjoyable. It may even be productive. So why am I dissatisfied? No one is addressing the problem. Indeed "What is the problem?" I would like to ask this group of wise men to describe the problem that general purpose computing or even object oriented programming is intended to solve. Perhaps you would like to suggest a set of problems, a decomposition if you will, of the more general problem. Naive though I am, it seems to me one needs to state a problem before one engages in long dialogs about its solution. Is this view wrong? I challenge each of you to state the problem tha you think general purpose computing (or some subset, if you think the challenge unfair) is trying to solve. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
