Toby Schachman wrote:
This half hour talk from Zed Shaw is making rounds,
https://vimeo.com/43380467
The first half is typical complaints about broken w3 standards and
processes. The second half is his own observations on the difficulties
of teaching OOP. He then suggests that OOP is an unnatural programming
paradigm and that the problems of the web stem from the problems of
OOP.
To echo Pascal Bourguignon's sentiment, "this is all just wrong."
First off, while I personally am not a big fan of OOP, seems to me that
HyperCard was an existence proof that OOP is an incredibly natural
programming paradigm, when it's packaged well.
Re. problems of the web stemming from problems of OOP: Other than Java
servelets, where is OOP much in evidence on the web?
If anything, the web is a big implementation of the Actor paradigm. Web
servers, by and large, listen for messages, and respond to incoming
messages by spawning a process that generates a response, then
terminates. Doesn't seem very object oriented to me - particularly when
code takes the form of perl, or PHP.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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