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Objects Have Failed
- lg 19y ago"papers and talks explaining and advocating new ideas might sound like propaganda or fiction or even poetry" Well this talk reads like literary theory, and that's no compliment.
- gruseom 19y agoThis is half of a debate that Gabriel and Steele did at OOPSLA 2002. Steele's half is at http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html. Since this was a debate it's difficult to tell how closely these pieces match the authors' personal views. In fact, if you take out the words "failure" and "success" then they're hardly contradicting each other at all. Gabriel's biggest complaints are about OO cultism and static typing, as in this quote: [O]bject-oriented languages have succumbed to static thinkers who worship perfect planning over runtime adaptability, early decisions over late ones, and the wisdom of compilers over the cleverness of failure detection and repair.