On Mar 28, 2:57 pm, John Passaniti <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jonah Thomas wrote:
> > One of the early promises of OO was that great designers could set up
OO
> > systems that mediocre coders could then use, and the coders would find
> > things arranged so simply that they wouldn't make mistakes. This
promise
> > has failed, probably inevitably. Instead we sometimes get mediocre
> > designers making OO systems that get in the way for good programmers
who
> > come after them. Of course this is not exactly a flaw in OO, it's a
> > misuse of OO. But the marketing promise that OO would be hard to
misuse
> > has failed.
>
> Again with the unsup****ted statements. We're supposed to believe that
> OO hasn't delivered on a promise because... Jonah says so? First,
> demonstrate the promise isn't just a straw man argument you're
> inventing. Then, provide something more than anecdotal evidence for the
> promise not being met.
>
> In the process of doing this, feel free to throw away marketing hype.
> When you're at home watching television and you see a commercial for
> Tasty Yumyums with happy people dancing around, you ignore it. You
> ignore it (and the claim that Tasty Yumyums are the most amazingly
> delicious awesome snack ever) because you're older than 12 and you've
> got a brain. You can apply common sense and intuition.
I don't think that he can. He has a need to believe that
the crudest dialect of Forth is superior to every other
language. That is what gives him a warm and fuzzy feeling.
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