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[Balbir Thomas]

I have heard more than one professor of mine (Ohio State University)
mention that Object oriented programming
is essentially "Systems Thinking" applied to software engineering.
Over the years I am quite convinced that this is true.
Almost no engineer today would dare to design and implement any
sufficiently complicated systems without recourse
to some if not most of the techniques of "Systems Engineering".
Software systems tend to be some of the most
complicated man made systems. What is worse the complexity is
arbitrary complexity, i.e. does not have
hidden regularity, for instance such as those found even in natural
(real world) chaotic systems.

While functional programming has its benefits and seems to be in vouge
today I don't see how it can completely
(or to any measure) do away with the systems methodology (as embodied
in OO) in developing complex software
systems. But if it can assimilate it then maybe ...

Some Links :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Systems_science

regards
Balbir Thomas

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:41:44PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> On 17 Feb 2009, James Laver verbalised:
>>
>> > On Mon, February 16, 2009 7:57 pm, Nix wrote:
>> >> Moose, of course, is just a *real* language's OO system ported to Perl ;)
>> >
>> > It's more powerful than any object system in any mainstream language
>> > (non-mainstream languages have similar).
>>
>> The Real Language in question was Common Lisp :)
>
> I knew CLOS was coming here ...
>
> Is OO actually useful for anything?  The canonical example is GUI
> toolkits.  These days I'm less and less convinced that OO is helpful
> even there.
>
> Rich.
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