From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] dynamic dispatching
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:33:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030610233303.GJ1464@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <299DDADD-9B2F-11D7-8F2D-000393863F70@exomi.com>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:34:49PM +0300, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
>
> BTW: Whenever you end up using the visitor design pattern, that may
> mean that you'd be better off separating the data from the functions
> manipulating it, not using classes at all. OOP is highly overrated.
Yes. I'd say as a general principle, for both natural languages and
programming languages, that literal translations are mostly poor
translations. To do it well you have to be able to think in both
languages.
--
Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way,
Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through
mgushee@havenrock.com its fields;
http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way,
Horses bear soldiers through
its streets.
--Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-10 10:09 Mirko Aigner
2003-06-10 10:34 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-06-10 23:33 ` Matt Gushee [this message]
2003-06-12 16:35 ` brogoff
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