[AccessD] Access and OOP

[John Colby]

So learn any modern language.  Python, Java, C++, Ruby.  Come back and tell
me OOP is dying.


On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:05 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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