[rescue] slow java code...an example of why it might be happening

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Tue Feb 11 13:33:49 CST 2003


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> That sound you just heard was a thousand CS professors' brains
> twitching.  You've just described OOP as it's -taught- in college.
> "Create it and forget it!  Now you've taught the computer how to do xyz,
> so you don't have to remember how."  It's a good idea up to a point, but
> the minute you throw any resource management into the picture,
> everything starts moving in slow motion.
> 

OOP is like communism.  It works on paper but not on human
nature.

KL


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