From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <005301c44e76$fd1907c0$a1fafea9@KimKubik> From: "kim kubik" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <40C57614.7030405@mipk.kharkiv.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:10:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9a7fa100-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ----- Original Message ----- From: cej@gli.cas.cz > > is OO paradigm overcome/superseeded/abandoned, or has more cons than pros? ------ From: Vladimir Los > may I answer it too? > OO paradigm is not the question of programming (coding if you want). > This is the thing of thinking and design. ------- This interview might be of interest (she's a Sun "Java Evangelist"): "... we seem to have reached the point where OO is no longer effective. No one can comfortably negotiate a system with thousands of classes. So, unfortunately, object-oriented programming has a fundamental flaw, ironically related to its main strength." - excerpted: The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun's Victoria Livschitz, -- Senior IT Architect and Java Evangelist, Sun Microsystems http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/livschitz_qa.html She also says: "... An enormous mess of XML documents that are now being created by enterprises at an alarming rate will be haunting our industry for decades."