D - more power than (really) needed !

[David Medlock]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:

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> Don Clugston schrieb am 2006-03-10:
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>>OO has some great ideas. But overuse of OOP is a disaster. It's 
>>unbelievably difficult to write good OO code on a large scale.
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> So, how do you design/write lare scale projects?
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> Thomas
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I prefer data driven design.  Usually using a database but sometimes 
using XML or other external format(scripting falls under this in some ways).

And by OOP I assume Don meant inheritance, since the other aspects are 
not unique to it.

Outside of simple Shape examples in textbooks, implementation 
inheritance has largely been a failure for reusable or easy to maintain 
code.  OOP is supposed to be about black box reusability of objects,ie. 
components but then its main claim to fame is a way to break that 
abstraction.

see:
http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Subtyping/#Problem

-DavidM