"Do hackers and geeks just not care about communicating effectively? Do they not realize that a mediocre command of written English makes them appear less intelligent?"
This question smacks with generalization and stereotype. (DISCLAIMER: I do not use proper english). I gather that this question is based on someones experience reading comments on slashdot or some chat room, basically totally informal areas of communication. But besides that, what about a comparison to other fields like Lawyers or Doctors? Who really has proper english. Using the same generalization technique of the question's author i gather that the only people who use proper english are editors for dictionaries. Furthermore, I am willing to bet that the majority of our language is compromized of many improper bastardizations from other languages or even from within English itself.
Anyway stop picking on programmers and other members of the technologically elite. Just cause you cant code doesnt mean you can put us down for not writing well.
First of all, OOP is just a method for programming. It is not about reducing the size of the code or making programs run faster. It's main purpose is to make programming projects, particularly large ones easier to organize. The website seems to attack object oriented prgramming beacuse other people have attributed non existant quialities to it. Instead of attacking OOP, it should try and explain what OOP is really about, rather than making it seem like a really useless (or stinky) method. OOP is not bad or good it is simply another method of programming.
IMHO OOP is my programming method of choice. I find it easier to organize the structure of a program, even small ones, before i program it. This is just my preference and I do use other methods depending on the task at hand. I suggest rather than picking one method over the other, understand a bunch of methods and pick one that best fits your programming task.
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"Do hackers and geeks just not care about communicating effectively? Do they not realize that a mediocre command of written English makes them appear less intelligent?"
This question smacks with generalization and stereotype. (DISCLAIMER: I do not use proper english). I gather that this question is based on someones experience reading comments on slashdot or some chat room, basically totally informal areas of communication. But besides that, what about a comparison to other fields like Lawyers or Doctors? Who really has proper english. Using the same generalization technique of the question's author i gather that the only people who use proper english are editors for dictionaries. Furthermore, I am willing to bet that the majority of our language is compromized of many improper bastardizations from other languages or even from within English itself.
Anyway stop picking on programmers and other members of the technologically elite. Just cause you cant code doesnt mean you can put us down for not writing well.
First of all, OOP is just a method for programming. It is not about reducing the size of the code or making programs run faster. It's main purpose is to make programming projects, particularly large ones easier to organize. The website seems to attack object oriented prgramming beacuse other people have attributed non existant quialities to it. Instead of attacking OOP, it should try and explain what OOP is really about, rather than making it seem like a really useless (or stinky) method. OOP is not bad or good it is simply another method of programming. IMHO OOP is my programming method of choice. I find it easier to organize the structure of a program, even small ones, before i program it. This is just my preference and I do use other methods depending on the task at hand. I suggest rather than picking one method over the other, understand a bunch of methods and pick one that best fits your programming task.