At 5:10 PM +0100 9/5/01, Dave Cragg wrote:
>You're scaring me, Geoff. It's Transcript's lack of these features that make it
>attractive. :)
Agreed. And there are at least a few articles claiming that OO doesn't really gain you
anything, except for the discipline it enforces. In other words, apply the same
discipline without OO, get the same benefits without the OO headaches.
One of the things I really like about working in Transcript (and similar languages) is
that I choose the level of rigor I apply to my coding. Something like the RTF
converter, which I know has a very limited scope and a limited life span, I can just
plunge in like a medieval warrior, hacking and slashing until the code does something
useful -- or I get tired :-) For larger projects, I can also easily draw up a full
description of the functionality, comment it all, insert it into a handler and work
from that.
my two cents
gc
