[FRIAM] Fwd: ABM

[Phil Henshaw]

Well, for the knowledgeably ignorant among us... what the heck is
'object oriented' programming anyway.  All the code looks like code to
me, and other than having a few more sub-routines I don't understand the
purpose or design of... what's changed other than standardizing a few
protocols across platforms?  


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:06 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: ABM
> 
> 
> Douglas Roberts wrote:
> > I still can't help but feeling that in general, *way* too many words
> > are being used to describe ABM (and IBM) methodologies.  The 
> > underlying concept of object-oriented software design as 
> the basis for 
> > ABM simulation architecture is just so straight forward and 
> intuitive 
> > that I am repeatedly amazed at how people continue to make 
> such a big, 
> > mysterious deal out of it.
> For some reason many ABM enthusiasts feel the need to introduce basic 
> programming and computer science to their peers in their own peculiar 
> and impoverished language. 
> Why OOP gets embraced in particular completely baffles me and 
> much of it 
> is inappropriate for modeling.  (e.g. rigid inheritance)   I 
> suspect it 
> has to do with the need many perceive to learn and use toolkits.
> 
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