On 03/11/2010 08:29 PM, Allen wrote: > I'm in a similar situation as you, my programming education and > experience predates OO programming. I've been working on learning OO > design and programming. > > I recently read the book "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric Raymond. > He made an intriguing point. In his view, the OO paradigm has not lived > up to expectations and hype. He asserts that except for the programming > of GUIs, the OO approach has not proven superior to non-OO approaches. > He further asserts that the OO approach has not been widely accepted > within the Unix community. (I'm making an assumption that by extension, > that also applies to the Linux community.)
Take what you read from Eric with a grain of salt, especially his more
recent stuff. My personal experience is that object oriented approaches
are so ubiquitous, we don't even recognize them as such any more.
On a related topic, would a programming in Ruby talk be interesting to
folks? We've still got a few slots left for the year, and I'm trying to
figure out what might be interesting to folks.
-Sean
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