[FRIAM] What is an object?
Nick Thompson
nickthompson at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 18 12:53:04 EDT 2018
Marcus,
Am I correct that this is what “oop” is designed to avoid?
“This” being what you describe below?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
<http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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Nick writes:
“And like any modular system (DNA comes to mind), modularity is a great spur to creativity, leaving programmers free to work on better modules knowing that as long as the version of the “object“ they design (which, say, can work in a greater variety of heat conditions or uses less power, etc.) is the “same” box, then their work is a contribution to the whole.”
In the real world of software, there are many frozen accidents. The genesis of an initial building block leads to another being designed in a certain way, which brings with another set of idiosyncrasies, and so on. After decades of this people start to believe that things must – in principle and in practice -- be a certain way. Software layering can be an obstacle to innovation once basic assumptions are called into question; it is easy to get stuck in local fitness maxima and a particular foundation.
Marcus
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Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 9:53 AM
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And like any modular system (DNA comes to mind), modularity is a great spur to creativity, leaving programmers free to work on better modules knowing that as long as the version of the “object“ they design (which, say, can work in a greater variety of heat conditions or uses less power, etc.) is the “same” box, then their work is a contribution to the whole.
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