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OOP considered snake oil

Of interest:

$B!V(B... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the
snake oil has the most impressive names --otherwise you would be
selling nothing-- like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software
Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems",
"Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and
"Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as
IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).$B!W(B

by Edsger W Dijkstra, 1994, from
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/t...x/EWD1175.html

Xah
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$B-t(B http://xahlee.org/

Dec 22 '07 #1
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On 22 Dic, 17:45, A New American-Chinese Super Power Man wrote:
[...]

As olwaiz, you're right and left.

Meri krismess!!
Dec 22 '07 #2

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