Nick, Marcus does a good job of avoiding your "why" trap. But he doesn't (usually) telegraph his (purposeful) rhetorical jitsu. 8^) I would posit that OOP isn't really *designed* so much as it is evolved. Sure, there are people afflicted with the Great Man Theory, thinking that OOP sprung from the head of <favorite person> fully formed. But the reality is probably more mungy than that.
On July 18, 2018 10:23:17 AM PDT, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: >For example, if all you have is an interface to a sort routine, and >that sort happens to be a bubble sort -- an O(n^2) cost – you might >avoid sorting if you had a lot of items to track, if only because you >observed the sort routine took a long time. Or if your processor only >could do scalar math, you might not see the practical benefit in using >vector or matrix notation in a program. These are the types of >interfaces a vendor would provide a customer, and their properties can >greatly influence how/if the customer approaches a problem. Often it >is not possible to look under the hood to see how they work. > >The point is that out of laziness or selfishness, artifacts are formed >in ways that may not be well-suited to what would be optimal for a >given problem, and that inertia that changes how new components are >built using them. A simple organizational approach like OOP can’t >guide all kinds of technical decisions. At best, it can >compartmentalize and factor the compexlity, which unfortunately can >mean sweeping deep algorithmic issues under the rug. > >From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson ><nickthomp...@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group ><friam@redfish.com> >Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10:53 AM >To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' ><friam@redfish.com> >Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is an object? > >Marcus, > >Am I correct that this is what “oop” is designed to avoid? > >“This” being what you describe below? > >Nick -- glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
