Make Object Oriented?

[Donn Cave]

In article <1155211932.632684.185920 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 "Simon Hibbs" <simon.hibbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't even vaguely concieve of how such a think could work, even at a
> trivial, hypothetical level. The code converter would ahve to actualy
> understand at a general level what the program does and how it does it,
> then come up with an orriginal way to solve the same problem using a
> different methodology.
> 
> As to the simple case, even here, the converter would have to make
> inteligent decisions. Which methods and properties should it move to
> the base class, and which should it keep local? What criteria might it
> use for making such a choice? How could you be sure that the decisions
> it made would be useful or appropriate?

Yes indeed.  This must be OO fever in its most rarified form -
the notion that even mechanical conversion to OO would be an
improvement.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu