Monday 1 January 2007
by Huw Collingbourne, Dermot Hogan
Dermot Hogan, a long-time OOP-sceptic, is now the lead developer of an OOP IDE. Here he debates the pros and cons of Object Orientation with OOP-convert, Huw Collingbourne…
Huw: Back in June 2005, you wrote a column in which you argued that Object Oriented Programming (OOP) has turned out to be a failure. In the period since then, you and I have been working on the Ruby In Steel IDE written for one object oriented language (Ruby) and written (largely) in another object oriented (...)
Interesting post. Lot’s of what you both said didn’t chime with my experiences, but I expect that’s because I develop a different type of app. And that’s really the nub. You need different horses for different courses.
Anyway, I did really struggle with your mangling of "your" and "you’re". Please sort it out - it really grates with an arch pedant like me!
