Re: back to: improving rpg. was: what is object oriented programming

Happily, Joe and  Hans are rectifying this by explaining it to all the
rest of us. . . <grin>  I must say I was struck by Hans' comment a while
back about how OO is like Zen: didn't he say something like, "if you try
to explain it you don't understand it"? Maybe that said it all . . . .

(No offense meant to anyone -- I actually would like to learn more about
OO, and I enjoy the discussions, but I admit to being put off by comments
implying that it would take years to learn enough to actually have it be
useful. There are a lot of other things that I can learn about and be
useful much more quickly, and as J. M. Keynes pointed out, "in the long
run, we're all dead". A design methodology that is only understood by a
few "experts" and can't be expected to show any benefits without years of
study sounds like a seminar-promoter's dream, especially when the answer
to "how come this doesn't seem to make much sense?" is always "you haven't
spent enough time working with it". And it doesn't help when the "experts"
don't always seem to be on the same page. . . .)

Booth Martin writes:
>The whole concept of
>OO has never gotten through


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