Rogers and BitTorrent: another datapoint

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:38:19AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> OO is, to my mind, merely another programming technique to be applied
> when useful, NOT fitting of being the end-all of how systems ought to
> be "shaped."
> 
> To my mind, the common focus on "what are the object classes?" or
> "show me the UML!" are mistaken replacements for analysis of the
> problem that is to be solved.

Well I like this quote:
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could
only have originated in California."
Edsger Dijkstra

And I kind of like objects for some types of programming.

His quotes on cobol and basic are lovely too.

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Len Sorensen
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