From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel From: 9nut@9netics.com In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20040303095749.00ab5e10@pop.monitorbm.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:55:20 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e6b6686-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. Definitely one for the fortune file. > Would you care to expand on that? You have something against tersely eloquent, and expressive statements? =E2=98=BA How I interpret it, and what my experience tells me is that OO doesn't scale up (or down) and is the wrong model for a lot of things. Java's issues are not just with the language. It is also the fact that it insists on (ordained to) representing EVERYTHING in an object abstraction. Java suffers from the modern illusion that if a little of something is good, more of it must be better.