OOP Programming ...

[Michael Hipp]

Ben Duncan wrote:
> Ok, been studying some C# training videos. Intrigued by the
> DotNote stuff with CLI for true transportability, in particular
> the MONO project .
> 
> After having done some heavy lifting in C on my slag project,
> my gosh, OOP is a resource hog!!!  Seems like everything is
> redundant, uses a lot MORE memory and just flat takes more
> coding effort to get it setup .... or is it just me?

IMHO, you're half correct. OO code of necessity takes more machine 
resources. But that's true of any attempt at a "higher abstraction". But 
Python for me saves a great deal of coding effort compared to C or other 
procedural language.

The payback for OO programming can be quite good. But the cost is born 
in the learning, not in the actual coding.

But don't join the Dark Side and get into Mono/.NET. Friends don't let 
friends do dot-net.  C# is actually quite a good language. Probably what 
Java should have been. But compared to Python it looks like something 
from a bygone era.

Michael