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For all its blemishes it's still the most natural way to represent the concept of "user-defined data type" in a procedural language. "Modeling the world as OOP
by qsort 4y ago
For all its blemishes it's still the most natural way to represent the concept of "user-defined data type" in a procedural language.
"Modeling the world as OOP", OTOH, is a load of bull.
- igouy 4y ago"It should be clear to anyone that models of the world are completely different from models of software. The world does not consist of objects sending each other messages, and we would have to be seriously mesmerised by object jargon to believe that it does. … we use different sets of building blocks for modelling the world and modelling the software …" 1994 "Designing Object Systems" https://www.google.com/books/edition/Designing_Object_Systems/9pFQAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=mesmerised https://www.google.com/books/edition/Designing_Object_System...
- Konohamaru 4y agoWhat software would you use if you wanted to model the world?
- igouy 4y agoSorry, I'm not up-to-date with modelling software.
- patrick451 4y agoANSYS, Dymola, Simulink, FAST, CESM, Drake, to name a few.