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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (462482)	3/9/2009 9:22:19 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574591

"An OO programming purist, he insisted EVERYTHING be an object." Heh. Boy, does that sound familiar... There was very little applied OO technology in the day when COBOL was at its prime. However, once having converted to OO "purism", there is no going back. It is, simply put, a better way of doing things and that's why practically everyone doing development today is using OO techniques (and in fact, there is actually an OO COBOL around that someone has dreamed up). If you have ever had the job of maintaining a large-scale COBOL system that someone else wrote, you know why OO code is so critical. Having been the recipient of someone else's "program-and-dump" to clean up 100,000s of lines of someone else's verbosity, I would never want to return to those days and I wager you wouldn't either.