Re: OOP Question
On 26 Nov 2000, at 1:33, Ck Lester wrote:
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> I like to program as though my application will be running on those
> computers that make the "Matrix" possible... heh. heheh. <ahem>
Too bad Connection Machines Inc. went bust. I would love to get my hands
on one of those. They were bought up, but afaik they don't make `em like
they useto. With the speed of development in new cpu and motherbd
archetecture, building a big new multiprocessor box means it will be
obsolete by the time you get it finished and running. I recall one *big* IBM
puter, ~1000 Pentiums, 100Mhz(?). By the time the last board was
installed, they couldn't find any more of those cpus new. I can imagine the
Matrix, but i can't imagine how they chose a point at which to freeze the
puter hardware development. An evolutionary hardware stage can obsolete
the existing software, maybe that's how it would (could? did?) happen.
> Honestly, though, as applications become larger, procedural programming
> won't cut it... or will it? 
Sure they will, if you don't listen to micro$oft. <ramble> What will get
harder is finding dos anywhere, and eventually it simply will fail in all date-
critical situations, since it really isn't going to be maintained. And so
programs you write for it won't have an audience. If you convert to linux,
you take on that added overhead of the multitasking OS, and the built-in
toys, such as inter-application msgs and on_events, become attractive to
use, making the code more OOPish. The only percived and touted
advantage OOP can offer is adding functions to a library when you don't
have the oem source code, and overriding it's native functions,, both of
which can be simulated with straight procedural coding, imo. </ramble>
> I like! You ever play on Yahoo games or the Zone?
No, i haven't. Two yrs ago, someone told me about a program to download
that enabled people to play each other, but i never found anyone out there,
not even the person who told me about it, and so i deleted it. No time now.
Barely enough time to write any code. 
(
Kat,
going to sleep now.
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