Learning OOP...

[Roman Suzi]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

>> "Interface segregation principle", "dependency inversion principle",
>> etc.  Again, www.objectmentor.com has good papers on this:-).
>
>I hardly think that object orientation has a monopoly on this approach :).
>The reason that I don't think that these are really OO principles is that
>the most successful component architecture and reuse framework that I've
>ever seen is UNIX, which says nothing about objects; only executables,
>files, and streams.

But Microsoft is (desktop) monopoly and their systems are OO.

>The most revolutionary development in software engineering was the
>subroutine, closely followed by the data structure.  The notion of
>"objects" has been a useful tool to think with, but much more of a small
>incremental improvement than the revolution of the subroutine :)

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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