Exobox Screenshots

anatoli fomenko anatoli.fomenko at eng.sun.com
Thu Mar 15 19:56:06 UTC 2001


Stephen Pair wrote:

> > Another story - a very high level engineer in a prominent processor
> > manufacturer told me that object oriented programming was dead, and he was
> > surprised that anyone was still doing it.  I had hoped he was just talking
> > about Smalltalk (we got used to that comment), but no, he meant OOP.
>
> I've heard similar things (about OOP being dead) recently...amazing.  I
> think people fail to realize that the Internet would not work if it weren't
> for it's use of the OO concepts of polymorphism and encapsulation...

> - Stephen

Please do not forget that Microsoft uses C++ extensively, C# and the whole .NET
will be OO, and Java was OO the last time I checked - I've touched only the
larger pools of developers. If people *think* OO when writing C++ or Java -
that's another story...

Anatoli






More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list