"H. S. Lahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Les Hatton "Does OO sync with the way we think?", IEEE Software, 15(3), > > p.46-54 > > "This paper argues from real data that OO based systems written in C++ > > appear to increase the cost of fixing defects significantly when > > compared with systems written in either C or Pascal. It goes on to > > suggest that at least some aspects of OO, for example inheritance, do > > not fit well with the way we make mistakes." > > Try and find and experienced OO developer who would advocate that large, > complex generalizations are a good practice. You can write lousy > programs in any paradigm. The likelihood increases when you use the > most technically deficient of all the OOPLs. (If those developers had > used Smalltalk, I'll bet their defect rates would have been > substantially lower even if they weren't very good OO developers.)
Careful, the paper never claims that C++ produced more defects than C or Pascal. It only claims that the defects found in the C++ program were more costly to fix. That is a very big difference. However, I agree completely with the rest of your comments. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
