Re: Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)

If I may stick my oar in here - Pete, make sure that when you use a term
with meaning in both OO and non-OO that your reader knows exactly what you
mean.

A discussion between us last year foundered when you used a word -
function - that meant in non-OO terms that the program /system did not
perform that particular necessary process, while in OO it means something
completely different.

Natural language is slippery.

PL
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Richard Brady <rrllbrrady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Pete Dashwood wrote:
> [snip]
> >   The im****tant (to me...), and usually overlooked by people obsessed
only
> > with coding, thing here is the CONCEPTUAL use you get from an Object.
This
> > is BECAUSE it is as you described above. Identifying Objects
conceptually
> > and building them in code go hand in hand in my book. I have never
> > considered Objects to be ONLY the "instantiation in memory of a
defined
> > computer Class", even though that is all they are to a program. PEOPLE
can
> > use Objects (conceptually) and can model with them, modify them,
(without
> > committing any computer code to memory), do walkthroughs with them,
and
> > conceptually juggle with them to get a better solution. That is just
as
> > im****tant in an Object Oriented approach to problem solution, as the
> > technical details which apply to computer code.
> >
> [snip]
> > Absolutely. The fact is that when you encapsulate behaviours and
properties
> > into an Object, the synergistic whole, is far greater than the sum of
its
> > parts. The code representation is only ONE aspect of it.
> >
> > Pete.
>
> OK Pete,
> At the risk of getting you in serious trouble again, here I have these
> files to read containing data.  How does this data constitute an object
> and after I've manipulated the heck out of it generating the view I
> wish, how do I save the object(s) to media (disk, print or screen)?
>
> Thanks for this and other insights.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Brady