[ALUG] Re: This is the ultimate in "object oriented" programming????

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:09:11PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
> cl at isbd.net wrote:
> >So I have been playing a little with Ruby on Rails.  I have it up and
> >running and it works in a way but I'm totally unconvinced that it's
> >the answer to the ultimate question - or even the answer to writing
> >database apps for the web.
> >
> 
> The 'assumption' the object oriented' is 'always right' gets right up 
> my nose.
> 
I quite agree, but some sort of logical structure does make things
easier.

Some problems/applications are much more suited to a 'sequence of
actions' type approach and then, to my mind anyway, an Object Oriented
language doesn't fit the problem well.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)