From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 06:38:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710010638j19e22665s5a7c527d08a430e3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2c6f2214955f7c95af5d1b8010ccfd1@terzarima.net>
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On 10/1/07, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
> > it's ironic that the object-oriented guys have such
> > a tangled web of external dependencies.
>
> i think that's absolutely typical of most large o-o things i've
> had to read: not just external dependencies, but a real tangle
> of snippets of code in overridden methods in a cascading class
> hierarchy. hard for reasoning; bad for maintenance. i suppose it must
> be easier
> to write (although i've never found that to be true myself),
> and that's why it's so popular. i don't really know. it's finally a
> mystery to me.
> but we digress...
>
> If OO stuff were everything it needed to be to begin with, then Aspect
Oriented Programming and other techniques would not have been necessary.
Hell even the Aspect Oriented "weaving" of code between or overriding
existing methods was around in lisp a long time before it was called Aspect
Oriented programming.
Perhaps we should all be schemers or lispers instead...
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 9:14 [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 10:11 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-09-24 10:31 ` tlaronde
2007-09-24 11:43 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 12:18 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-01 10:12 ` app
2007-10-01 11:40 ` Kernel Panic
2007-10-01 12:13 ` lucio
2007-10-01 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 13:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-01 13:38 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-10-01 15:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:23 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 16:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-02 8:35 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-01 17:24 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 17:56 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 17:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 18:09 ` ron minnich
2007-10-01 18:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-01 19:32 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:55 ` David Leimbach
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