Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Mar 2 08:38:43 CST 2005
John, In my programming career, I've probably written 300,000 lines of code, but none of it in classes. And you're probably rolling your eyes about now! Do you have a very simple example of a class, or have a tutorial somewhere of how to create one? I am also a single programmer, and want to at least know about this tool so I can pick it up when appropriate. Thanks! Dan Waters ProMation Systems -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:02 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] C++ to vb.net conversion Well I read the first article and I'm not impressed. A lot of vitriol and absolutely nothing advanced as an alternative. There are just a ton of things that classes make trivial that are a royal PITA without them. I am a "single programmer" and I use classes all the time. I use them because there are many places where I need to instantiate more than a single instance of an object, the class holds all the data structures and the code, it is just there, I wrote it, I understand it, I just use it. Now granted because this is Access, I am not using the inheritance thing (though I wish I could). There is absolutely NOTHING difficult about writing classes. Trivial to understand, trivial to write, trivial to use. As for cutting and pasting code... OH MY GOD. I think that pretty much says it all for me. Anyone who is going to cut and paste any non-trivial code would NEVER earn a position in my organization. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:26 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] C++ to vb.net conversion Well I am an unabashed proceduralist and would much prefer to write Fast Fourier Transforms in APL than having to do it with an OOP language. I have been on teams using UML to churn out PL1 or Cobol code. I don't mind patterns, however on an OOP team, I always feel like I am in a trench and the shelling is getting heavier and everyone else is huddled down debating whether to load their rifles with .303 or 7.62 Ammo. Grady Brooch the father of OOP who worked at Rational Software before it was sold to IBM two years ago ,well now he is is dropping work on UML at IBM and working on patterns for something called aspect oriented development. This would be something like as an example, the security aspect of system to system connectivity, assuming similar underlying patterns.. Some thoughts on Ooops, procedural and generic programming problems OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice Think object-orient programming (OOP) is the only way to go? You poor, misguided soul. Richard Mansfield contends that OOP is just the latest in a history of ideas that sound good in theory but are clumsy in practice. by Richard Mansfield http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/26776 And all the hate mail in response http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=136762 Further thoughts from Mansfield http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm Richard Grimes on VB.NET and VB6 columnist at Dr Dobb's Journals What Microsoft missed. http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/ Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: >Marty, > >I meant mainly UML used for OOP real-life projects design & development >not just UML for database model diagramming - the latter is rather >trivial these days, the first is still state-of-the-art. But the first >was investigated a lot during last ten+ years and there are very useful >results IMO. I did recently get through "Applying UML and Patterns" by >Craig Larman - it shows that UML is a practical not an academic tool >and that when combined with Software Design Patterns then it becomes >even more powerful and more practical tool... > >Shamil _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com