in reply to Light Bulb Joke

To me, the joke is a statement on the overuse of OO. You don't need to apply object principles to something as simple as changing a light bulb.

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Re: Re: Light Bulb Joke
by BUU (Prior) on Feb 15, 2004 at 00:54 UTC
    Shouldn't it just be something along the lines of: 
    $socket->bulb = new Lightbulb();
$socket->bulb = new Lightbulb(); #changed;

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    Or something of that nature, as the lightbulb isn't changing itself really, it's being replaced. At least in the "real world".
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Re: Re: Light Bulb Joke
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Feb 15, 2004 at 21:52 UTC
    Yep. Unless you are writing a supply chain model that connects into your maintance department and electrical cost centers, in which case you are going to need to use the MyBossHasNoClueWhatHeIsAskingFor pattern.

    More OO is all well and good except you eventually reach the point where all you can think in is creating more objects. And then performance goes to absolute Hell. OO in moderation rocks, but very few folks actually understand how to get there.

    I know I have aborted (for-fun) projects because of OO design issues. I wanted everything perfect. The solution for me is to not embrace perfection and mix OO where applicable with procedural coding. OO can be used with data units, but there can still be functional/imperative constructs. So far, I'm having a lot more fun.

    Professors that teach OO is the only way are really damaging the minds of their students. In some cases, OO solutions are intractible, in others they are great solutions. Chosing when and where to draw the line is the key to Software Design...something 85% (fn 1) of all software architects miss.

    --- fn 1. 95.8% of all statistics are made up)

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Re: Re: Light Bulb Joke
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 14, 2004 at 18:57 UTC
    To me, the joke is a statement on the overuse of OO. You don't need to apply object principles to something as simple as changing a light bulb.
    Well, more of a paradoxical overuse of OO. Our OO paradigm is supposed to help us model the real world in software, not the other way around.
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