Re: Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper

[papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)]

In article <5lragjoifa.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu>,
Stefan Monnier  <monnier+comp.lang.functional@tequila.cs.yale.edu> wrote:
>ouster@tcl.eng.sun.com (John Ousterhout) writes:
>> But I stand by the two main points in the paper, which are that (a) OO
>> programming hasn't increased productivity dramatically because it doesn't
>
>Now, I don't understand one thing: why is OO evil if its only problem is that
>it doesn't increase productivity ? As far as I can see, OO doesn't have too
>many nasty side-effects.

It is expensive to learn. I think that it is only valuable to train people in
it if they are going to save time later on.

 Paul Prescod