Vitaliy wrote:
> OOP does not prevent bad programmers from writing bad code, it helps
> good programmers write better code.

I have made a function from this sentence:

void isHLLgood(char *language)
{
    printf("%s does not prevent bad programmers from writing bad code, it
helps\n"
              "good programmers write better code.", language);
}

<grin>

Tamas



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:

> Forrest W Christian wrote:
> > With assembly, it is quite difficult to encode enough hints into the
> > actual code so that you can understand what is going on - especially if
> > you are operating without useful comments.   That is, the coding is so
> > close to the machine level that you almost have to think in assembler to
> > make any sense out of it.  Most of your maintenance is looking at the
> > code and determining how it accomplishes (or not) what the comment says.
>
> To be honest, I haven't done any serious programming in assembly, but from
> what little experience I have you're absolutely right. That's one of the
> reasons I don't like assembly. There is a place for it, just not for the
> kinds of applications I'm working on. The ratio of the cost of hardware
> relative to the cost of programmer time is just too low.
>
> > With what some people think OOP should be, it's almost as difficult.
> > Mainly because often you have to figure out the whole inheritance tree
> > to figure out what the (@#*$ is going on.
>
> 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).
>
> > Give me a well written chunk of code in a procedural language such as C
> > (or basic, or perl, or php for that matter) and I'm happy.
>
> Chunk of code, sure. Complex system, that's another story.
>
> 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.
>
> Best regards,
>
> VItaliy
>
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