From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40C815C1.9060107@mipk.kharkiv.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:03:13 +0300 From: Vladimir Los User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A prick into the wasps' nest ;-) References: <40C57614.7030405@mipk.kharkiv.edu> <005301c44e76$fd1907c0$a1fafea9@KimKubik> In-Reply-To: <005301c44e76$fd1907c0$a1fafea9@KimKubik> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b0dbeea-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 kim kubik wrote: > ------- > 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." She (and somebody else) can say more and more but if we continue to have the main thing for reusing of code through inheritance of classes we continue to have "major flaws of OO".