Deep nesting vs early returns

Paolo Invernizzi paolo.invernizzi at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 05:36:59 UTC 2018


On Friday, 5 October 2018 at 19:04:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 10/04/2018 11:40 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> [...]
>
> It's not *my* statement about newer/older. If you recall the 
> programming atmosphere around 2000, OO was widely being touted 
> as a newer thing, superior to "old-fashioned" imperative, even 
> though there's a million things about that whole assessment 
> that are false (not the least of which being the at-the-time 
> popular notion that Java-style OO somehow wasn't still 
> imperative, or, as you pointed out, that OO was a new 
> invention).
>
> There's one minor aspect of it that was true though: Widespread 
> popularity of OO was certainly a new thing, even if OO itself 
> wasn't.

The hype was hight also in the 90...

I remember having used (in production!) a 3rd party  extension to 
Clipper (I don't remember if Summer 87, or 5.0.x) that added OO 
to the language!

0__o

/Paolo


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