Mini-report for Demland:

[azurelunatic]

Why Object Oriented is so much better than Structural (5 reasons)

1. Object Oriented designs simulate real-world objects, making them more intuitive to work with.


2. Encapsulation is possible, so they can be accessed in only authorized ways.


3. Cuts down on the if/then statements; objects can deal with a variety of different things without having to be told explicitly what to do with them by the sender.


4. Inheritance. Nice yummy inheritance. I love inheritance. It's got class.


5. Object-oriented programming can be used with any programming language.

(1-4 from http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/8, 5 from http://www.ercb.com/brief/brief.0097.html)

Comments

Re: "any programming language?"

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Inheritance is good. Supporting it is better. I suppose for things that do not support inheritance, creating artificial inheritance with copy and paste should be your friends.

Or, alternatively, not using those languages for that.

(amusingly, I wrote "copy and pasta." Hm.)