[OT] Re: [Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpdemux demux_mkv.cpp,1.2,1.3

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:52:12PM +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > I agree here. Object oriented languages have their place where, and
> > > ONLY WHERE, data is the center of focus. When the process is the
> > > center of focus, a procedural language makes sense. Trying to make
> > > procedures into objects (with a few settings to control their behavior
> > > as the 'data' for the class) is nonsense!
> 
> afaik (one of) the aims of c++ is that eg. if you have modules in a player, 
> they can inherit the same super-class, and than if you change something in 
> the moduleloading/info structures you only have to change it in one place 
> (the super-class), and than one small change in the api won't give you 1 hour 
> work. Also if eg. a module has a priv struct, that basicly means you are 
> emulating objects in c - to me at least.
> 
> sure it might not be so efficient in some areas, but an oop language's 
> compiler usually does lot of the work of the human (and is less error prone) 
> if you use the language features wisely. 

This is OO propeganda -- nice in theory, but not something I've ever
observed in reality.

Rich