Has OOP Failed? Of course NOT!

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You must have missed my "Is Object Oriented Programming The Problem?" post back in August (it is the link above, since you can't post urls in Comments on GWB).

Like I siad in my post, the majority of programmers out there can not (and should not) be OO programmers. Instead Domain Specific Languages may be the solution. 2/6/2006 11:03 AM | Don Demsak

# re: Has OOP Failed? Of course NOT!

http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2005/08/01/2116.aspx

I want to test this URL can be posted. 2/6/2006 11:08 AM | Jeff Julian

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This discussion looks contra productive to me. This sort of problem is something for language/compiler designers than for the wide public. Of course there are problems with OO designs. Instead of lamenting how good the old times were these guys should come up with something better and easier to use. 2/6/2006 7:34 PM | Alois Kraus

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>> IMHO, the majority of programmers out there can not (and should not) be OO programmers

Well yes I have to agree with that since OO is not for everybody. But saying:

>> From Richard Mansfield: All too often a company hires OOP consultants to solve IT problems, but then that company’s real problems begin.

For him to have "two decades" of experience in the computing field and say a one-sided statement like the one above is a sign that he is inexperienced on what's really going on in the IT industry. He didn't even consider the fact that their is a gray area somewhere (yeah like not all OO projects are failures and I think its also the same with non OO ones).

For me whether implementing OO or not a project will be done successfully depending on how it is designed. It will always boil down to how the architecture was designed.

2/7/2006 12:03 AM | Chris Ongsuco