On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:37:20 PM UTC+5:30, Rick Johnson wrote: > > So for example, if the use-case contained a statement > > like: In order to safeguard customer-satisfaction, the > > ATM's performance shall not degrade beyond 3 seconds > > response time. > > So now - according to our methodology - we need to > > make performance, response-time and even customer- > > satisfaction(!!) into classes. > > LOL! > > Only a fool, or a religious OOP extremist, would create > custom objects for such things. Although, if he were forced > to use Java, he wouldn't have any choice would he? Poor > basterd! >:D
Shall I quote something of yours to Steven about "the ability to recognize sarcasm?" On a more serious note, Ian's terminate function, or Chris' bug-free function which is the same by Rice theorem are different variants of the same thing: some of the most key things of concern to the programmer cannot be modeled/reified into his program. > The point is, no one paradigm is going to save us from the > devil. We must take from each style it's positive > attributes, and reject it's negative attributes. The art of > intelligently applying multiple paradigms to solve complex > problems should be held up as the pinnacle of greatness. If > your going to worship something, worship achievement. Ok -- I agree. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
