Vitaliy wrote:
> OOP does not prevent bad programmers from writing bad code, it helps 
> good programmers write better code.
> FWIW, I'm successfully using OOP principles to write programs in C for PICs (so far, without inheritance).
>   
I don't seem to have a problem with OOP without inheritance.   Many of 
my favorite tools (Perl for instance) can fit into this category.   All 
that really means is reasonable abstraction is done so you are treating 
data chunks as "objects".
> At some point, a program written using procedural programming methods, 
> becomes too complex to understand. With OOP, you are working with bigger 
> chunks, so there are fewer of them and it's easier to keep them organized.
>   
Probably depends on who is writing it and how well it is written....

I have done quite a few bug fixes on large open source projects and have 
never seemed to have a problem.   But again, open source projects which 
are widely developed usually evolve towards a really clean codebase 
which is easy to maintain - since if the person who is trying to fix the 
bug can't understand what is going on, often they just rip & replace. 

-forrest
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