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Trevor Perry wrote:

How can you claim to be a modern language if you are using O-specs? Making
your file processes an integral part of your application program is a step
backwards.

If you had actually read the message to which you were responding, you would have noticed that I said, in so many words, that I have never been able to make constructive use of O-specs.

And as to your precious "n-tier programming" (the technical term is abstraction), it can be useful (I've seen it make programs smaller and faster), or it can be a complete and utter waste of computer resources and/or programmer time, producing huge, slow-executing programs that don't do anything a smaller, faster, less-fanatically-abstracted program could accomplish (other than sell bigger and faster hardware).

There are no panaceas anywhere in programming. The trick is having all the right tools, knowing what to do with them, and applying that knowledge without ideological prejudice.



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