Re: of applications for gnustep...

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 08:49 PM, Philip Mötteli wrote:
> > C++ completely misses the point what OO is all about. Yes, I'm 
> > referring
> > to Alan Kay's legendary comment:
> >
> >         I invented the term 'object oriented programming' and I can tell
> >         you I didn't have C++ in mind.
> >
> > C++ is one big mess of afterthoughts. C++ is evil and should be buried
> > at midnight under a full moon in an abandoned graveyard. And best be
> > forgotten as well.
>
> I do completely agree. And I would even add something: As someone, who 
> believes, that the most important part of an oo-program is its design: 
> It would be impossible for me to make any project in C++, because the 
> language is so little oo, that every design is just a huge tinkering 
> with, in other languages not needed, design patterns. It becomes an 
> unmaintainable mess.

In other words, you don't like C++ because you are not able to use it 
properly... also you are aware that there exist many design patterns 
which are used when programming in ObjC, aren't you!? You will even 
find concrete references to NeXT software in Gamma's book.

And BTW the quality of a design and/or code is much more influenced by 
the knowledge and experience of its author than the language of choice. 
I really fail to see why the argument of maintainability always pops up 
in this context, I could show you really ugly ObjC code which is 
everything but definitely not maintainable...

Computer languages are not religions, they are tools, so use them or 
don't if you have the choice, but please stay objective. I really do 
not believe that this kind of attitude helps getting more (new) people 
attracted to GNUstep and/or Objective-C.

Just my $0.02...

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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