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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:22:07 +0200
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>   "... 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

nuthin' wrong with OO.  all decent C programmers write in an OO
style.  what IS wrong with it is that the core of these OO languages
[java, python, C#, ...] is rotten.

i don't need no thousands of classes:

    http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/Nsys/sys/nsys