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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Harrison - TCI/AIT)
Wed Aug 16 19:00:07 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 08:26:08 +0700
From: rharriso@elmer.tcinc.com (Raymond Harrison - TCI/AIT)
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Well -
NO! on operator overloading.... As a consultant
for a major telecommunications company, I worked for a
project that "re-wrote" a popular multi-platform GUI
developer tool so that it was "object oriented". THe
original tool put out template code in C and is quite
powerful and easy to use, and easy to maintain. Now,
of course, we had to write C++ code to "wrap" around
the C code. Their idea of object oriented actually meant
"operator overloading...." The code was awful to maintain
and there was no actual object oriented aspect to it...
One of the leads was a recent PhD in computer science - in
(gag) object oriented design and languages. That's where
C++ belongs - in a University. Let's face it - software
design isn't rocket science, but it does take a high level
of skill to KISS. Many C++-heads that I know spend too much
time doing theoretical work with abstract ideas. Very little
software design gets accomplished. Just ranting....
RH
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