>>> On 1/11/2008 at 4:25 PM, in message
<5uqc7fF1j5kmlU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Pete Dashwood<dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:MWLhj.51219$N67.12522@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Neither do you need to be all-knowing to see that OO is the most
>>>>> successful paradigm to hit the computer industry. All you have to do
is
>>>>> look around, and try to accept the reality of what you see.
>>>>
>>>> One could have made very similar statements, with the precise same
>>>> justifications
>>>> you used to make that one, about Communism in 1960. Did VHS win over
>>>> Beta
>>>> because it was superior? :-)
>>>
>>> Funny you should say that... I was going to use that argument and ask
if
>
>>> you still use Betamax :-)?
>>
>> Never had a Betamax machine; couldn't afford it. :-)
>>
>>> It is obvious that VHS could do the job and it could do so more
cheaply
>>> than Betamax. The actual merit of both systems is a subjective
argument
>>> (VHS engineers would never allow that their system is/was inferior.)
>>>
>>> The world voted with its feet and went VHS.
>>>
>>> The parallels to OO programming are pretty obvious.
>>
>> Actually, the reverse is true: OO is the more expensive alternative.
>> Vastly more
>> so in things like learning curve.
>
> That depends totally on an individual's ability to learn.
>
> This has little to do with intelligence (although that certainly helps);
>
> more to do with attitude.
>
> I can state this unequivocally having both learned OO and taught it to
> people with various attitudes and experience.
>
> COBOL people find it hard because of their ingrained ITSA; novices,
> scripters and web programmers find it easy because they have no
> expectation
> or preconceived ideas about it.
>
> People with an open mind who can suspend ITSA, or commute it to an
> ITSLIKE,
> usually do pretty well, and the learning curve is NOT "vastly more
> expensive".
What is ITSA? I assume it's not "Intelligent Trans****tation Society of
America".
Frank
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