Re:Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
by jerf on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:15AM
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"This is partly why software componentisation as 'parts catalog' has never really taken off."
Well, that and the fact that OO turned out to not be a very good mechanism for building the parts catalog on. In the end I'd judge it as only slightly more successful than procedural programming on that front.
For instance, Haskell's "part's catalog" is somewhat smaller than other languages. But the parts do what they say they will, and generally go together pretty well once the community is done chewing on them and fixing them up. (Here I mean fundamental tools like parsers or text template systems, not merely "libraries to access this API" or "bindings to this particular library.) All those restrictions that go into Haskell are there for a reason.
Well, that and the fact that OO turned out to not be a very good mechanism for building the parts catalog on. In the end I'd judge it as only slightly more successful than procedural programming on that front.
For instance, Haskell's "part's catalog" is somewhat smaller than other languages. But the parts do what they say they will, and generally go together pretty well once the community is done chewing on them and fixing them up. (Here I mean fundamental tools like parsers or text template systems, not merely "libraries to access this API" or "bindings to this particular library.) All those restrictions that go into Haskell are there for a reason.