[AccessD] Access and OOP

[John Colby]

The second word in OOP is ORIENTED.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:53 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> John,
>
> Access is nof OOP. It is close but fails on a few significant aspects. I
> cannot create a class and then inherit from it. I cannot do polymorphism
> without a bunch of VBA code that points to the pseudo-class I created.
> More to the point, OOP is pretty much a dying creed of code. Originally it
> sounded like a great idea, then turned out to be a rhinocus with only two
> feet -- in other words, a very awkward beast.
> Initally I was seduced by the claims of Bertrand Meyer et. al., but that is
> no longer the case. I still think in OOP, but Access is simply not an OOP
> language. I would call it Not Oop, but kist an Object-Based Language. I
> suppose this is merely a matter of terminology, but since you know more
> than a little about VC and C++, you surely must understand the difference.
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:53 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is 2020.  OOP has been around for a long time and Access is, top to
> > bottom oop.  So...
> >
> > If you were to interview with the mythical organization C2Db for an
> Access
> > position, I would ask you:
> > 1) Do you understand OOP?
> > Yes.  The only acceptable answer in 2020.
> > 2) What is a class? A code construct that allows you to model a real
> world
> > object, storing code and variables (and events) for that object.
> >
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