Recently, in my Gr 12 programming class, we had to do a web based project. That was cool - I could use Perl to do it, not the panzy JavaScript we had been using! I submitted my proprosal to make something to generate a new page through form submission. It got oked. I then attempted to persuade my teacher to let me use Perl. After much arguing, I was finally allowed to - great! Just a simple top->down script to do my bidding. No mess, no nothing. However, my teacher, fool that he is, forced me to do it in OO syntax! Now, my nice little 2 page script has ballooned out into a dozen modules and about 20 pages worth of code. Mostly due to having to make constructors and their ilk for about 10 different objects, but all the same, OO was not the right choice for the job.

Question: Should a line be drawn for use of OO code? Yes, I can re-use some of my modules, but most of them were special-purpose, so much so that not even extensive use of polymorphism (love that word) could save them. Should OO stop at some point?

Cestus

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In reply to OO 2 death? by Cestus

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