IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO
1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 0 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User
IWETHEY Banner

Welcome to IWETHEY!

IWETHEY Home / IWETHEY Board / Theory and Practice of Programming Forum / Thank you, Scott!
Post #112,707
by jb4
Picture of jb4
8/4/03 7:25:50 PM
Reply
New Thank you, Scott!
Just like anything else. Use it where it makes sense. I am automatically skeptical of positions that say "always" or "never" use X, Y, or Z.


Words of wisdom that the "purists" will never quite 'get'.
jb4
Boy I'd like to see those words on a PR banner behind [Treasury Secretary John] Snow at the podium:
Jobs and Growth: Just Wait.
John J. Andrew, unemployed programmer; see jobforjohn.com
Post #112,710
by JimWeirich
Picture of JimWeirich
8/4/03 7:36:37 PM
Reply
New Another Me Too
Inheritance is a tool, delegation is a tool. Both have some sort of coupling to other code. Understand the coupling and use the tools appropriately.
--
-- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net [link|http://onestepback.org|http://onestepback.org]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
     Why extends is evil? - (johnu) - (44) - Aug. 4, 2003, 01:01:44 PM EDT
         Is this just for Java? - (drewk) - Aug. 4, 2003, 01:08:47 PM EDT
         This argument is needlessly pedantic, IMO - (FuManChu) - Aug. 4, 2003, 01:19:58 PM EDT
         Lesson learned from Smalltalk - (ChrisR) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2003, 01:22:03 PM EDT
             sounds like a will -NT - (deSitter) - Aug. 4, 2003, 02:43:03 PM EDT
         Inheritance is a tool. - (admin) - (7) - Aug. 4, 2003, 02:30:40 PM EDT
             Re: Inheritance is a tool. - (deSitter) - (3) - Aug. 4, 2003, 02:43:38 PM EDT
                 There's more to life than implementation inheritance. - (admin) - Aug. 4, 2003, 03:24:35 PM EDT
                 Definitions - (johnu) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2003, 03:24:52 PM EDT
                     I'd ask Alan Kay - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:34:14 AM EDT
             Thank you, Scott! - (jb4) - (1) - Aug. 4, 2003, 07:25:50 PM EDT
                 Another Me Too - (JimWeirich) - Aug. 4, 2003, 07:36:37 PM EDT
             Good example of bad inheritance, java.util.Stack - (bluke) - Aug. 5, 2003, 08:14:25 AM EDT
         This guy cracks me up - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:34:08 AM EDT
         IS A vs HAS A - (gdaustin) - (30) - Aug. 4, 2003, 10:30:10 PM EDT
             Quite. - (static) - Aug. 5, 2003, 08:16:32 AM EDT
             I missed that course - (drewk) - (18) - Aug. 5, 2003, 09:29:59 AM EDT
                 Shorthand for relationships - (admin) - (17) - Aug. 5, 2003, 09:36:46 AM EDT
                     Re: Shorthand for relationships - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2003, 09:40:20 AM EDT
                         snicker - (FuManChu) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:51:07 AM EDT
                     ISA/HASA are good for a first approximation - (JimWeirich) - (14) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:02:12 AM EDT
                         So what does it get you? - (drewk) - (10) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:07:20 AM EDT
                             Specialization vs. Generalization - (gdaustin) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:25:51 AM EDT
                             Code - (JimWeirich) - (7) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:59:43 AM EDT
                                 Thanks, but what would HASA look like? -NT - (drewk) - (6) - Aug. 5, 2003, 11:22:29 AM EDT
                                     HASA - (gdaustin) - (5) - Aug. 5, 2003, 05:31:03 PM EDT
                                         See, that's where I always get tripped up - (drewk) - (4) - Aug. 5, 2003, 05:53:29 PM EDT
                                             There is a point to naming the useless stuff - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 21, 2003, 05:36:50 PM EDT
                                                 Clarification - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 22, 2003, 10:37:14 AM EDT
                                                     Yes - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 22, 2003, 10:04:26 PM EDT
                                                         That's why I shouldn't be a teacher - (drewk) - Sept. 23, 2003, 10:51:27 AM EDT
                             The example of a stack (see post above) is a good one - (bluke) - Aug. 5, 2003, 11:47:35 AM EDT
                         My car is a Saturn - (gdaustin) - Aug. 5, 2003, 10:31:43 AM EDT
                         hierarchies and the real world - (tablizer) - (1) - Aug. 9, 2003, 02:07:51 PM EDT
                             Nonsense - (ChrisR) - Aug. 9, 2003, 03:51:57 PM EDT
             Not quite that simple - (tuberculosis) - (9) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:01 AM EDT
                 Thing I love/hate about smalltalk - (drewk) - (2) - Aug. 5, 2003, 12:26:10 PM EDT
                     Similar to Python in that fashion -NT - (admin) - Aug. 5, 2003, 12:41:34 PM EDT
                     Its real -NT - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:13 AM EDT
                 Forgot to mention: key driver is "substitutability" - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:18 AM EDT
                     Techies at Hertz - (tablizer) - (3) - Aug. 9, 2003, 02:12:31 PM EDT
                         And if your Table or Data Structure is... - (ChrisR) - Aug. 9, 2003, 03:53:19 PM EDT
                         Mostly - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:45:06 PM EDT
                             Or perhaps that .... - (gdaustin) - Aug. 11, 2003, 12:03:54 AM EDT
                 Code sharing vs. polymorphism - (johnu) - Aug. 5, 2003, 04:42:32 PM EDT

That would make a great .sig!
66 ms