Hi all, On Wednesday 13 August 2003 17:12, Frederick Polgardy Jr wrote: > To make things even more interesting, there are "paradigm"-differences > which are more the result of different levels of programming, than to > differences in what a language allows or encourages. Let me > illustrate. A co-worker recently made the following comment (more or > less) while discussing an OO design: "Use a class for this -- actually > you can just use a struct, since it's public." I gasped in horror!
When it comes to programmers and OO languages that's the real problem. Few programmers truly grok the zen of OO (love that phrase). Good OO design is actually quite hard to do right. It gets tricky because few programmers _realise_ how hard it is. This leads to C programs who code using a procedural style and are also smart/capable/talented enough to "get things working", moving to C++ but not actually taking the time and effort to learn OO design. Hell, all their old C tricks still work, and they can hack and hack until something works. Which of course results in a mess, and _then_ say that OO is overrated because maintaining and extending their mess is still just as hard as before. That's my opinion on that. ;-) > That's it?! The only difference in your mind between a class and a > struct is the default access restriction? Some people still don't understand the difference (importance!) between an interface and an implementation. Anyway, back on topic. You probably don't need to fully learn C++ to understand the Qt and C++ docs, but learning the C++ type system and how its OO model/declarations hang together is strongly recommended. I learnt C and asm originally and now I write KDE stuff in C++, basically C with classes. Most of C++ is a waste of space IMHO. Templates are a disaster, streams are just overrate syntactic sugar as they say, and I'm still waiting to see a good example of operator overloading that doesn't involve complex numbers or matrix math. (String concatination is probably the only other decent use for o. overloading). cheers, -- Simon Edwards | Guarddog Firewall [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.simonzone.com/software/ Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice." _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
