OO benefits? (was Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero )

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Steve:

On Sat, 10 November 2001, "Steve Richter" wrote:

> From: <thomas@inorbit.com>
>
> >If you mean that the full 1000CPW will be required as interactive, this is
> only true if the >application is written to do so. It's perfectly possible
> to break the interactive presentation l>ayer out and run the rest in batch
> as server functions.
>
> Tom,
>
>  When you add a layer ( in
> this case many layers ) to any software, you increase its complexity. That
> is bad.

I'm not at all convinced this is true. I add layers over and above coding in, 
say, MI when I program using OO tools, but I don't think that's necessarily 
bad. If you truly thought it was bad, I suspect you'd avoid c++. There are 
tradeoffs certainly; it always comes down to cost/benefit.

Tom Liotta

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