Re: How much oop is too much oop?

In article <e6ft961SFHA.3392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

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> Ah well. Unfortunately these are not hard and fast concepts.
> "minimal" to you is obviously "subminimal" to me if it forces me to
> omit a two line method whose absence prevents me doing something in
> milliseconds which would bypass another task taking 10 minutes and
> then failing.

If that was really the case, I'd agree that it was really sub-minimal
-- but so far, you've made only the _most_ vague sort of insinuations
to indicate that any such situation really exists.

To put it simply, I'm just not convinced that it does.

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> But short of this, telling customers that it is ok that it is
> sluggish because it is more strictly object-oriented (according to
> some people's criteria) is not going to make me my living. Even
> worse, telling them that the method which works faster only does so
> because the fast method is "irretrievably broken" would be a very
> good joke.

The question isn't whether it's good to do something a lot slower --
the question is whether there's a _real_ reason that it would be any
slower at all. In point of fact, I'd guess exactly the opposite would
actually be true.

I realize that many (if not most) things are more difficult than they
initially look, but after looking at your web page, I'm still
scratching my head trying to figure out what part of it could fail
(other than finding that the system lacks a sound card) so you'd have
any use for what you're advocating. If you were trying to do an OCR-
like thing, the irregularity of musical notation would clearly be a
massive headache. Even starting from MIDI, and translating to real
notation would clearly be quite difficult, especially in real-time.

OTOH, at least as I understand your software, it allows the user to
enter music IN musical notation, and then displays (and optionally
plays) the result. Maybe I'm really missing something crucial, but if
you're doing a reasonable job of collecting the information to start
with, it's hard for me to believe that displaying it quickly should
be nearly this difficult or have much use for the kinds of things
you've been advocating in this thread.

--
Later,
Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
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