I would imagine you are right. Back in an era where computing power was at a premium, any
wasted cycles were costly. Not so these days. I would argue that in several respects (i.e.
GUI design) OOP makes a lot of sense and writing a GUI environment in a non-OOP language,
while certainly possible, is probably a lot harder to design and make extensible. Again,
not impossible, but could be painful.
That said I see a lot of C++ code at my work that adds unnecessary complexity.
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From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 3:17:08 PM
Subject: Re: Algol vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, geoffrey oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net> wrote:
I wonder how much programmers in the 50's and
60's argued about how many CPU cycles this programming construct took vs. that. ;)
Probably a lot. In the earliest days, assemblers were considered a
poor use of time on the machine.
Of course, these are the people who argued as to how many digits you
really need to represent a year on the modern calendar. Hint: 2
digits only takes you so far... ;-)
-ethan