My newfound respect for C++ and OOP

Started by TwistedMatrix February 12, 2003 09:07 AM

19 comments, last by TwistedMatrix 21 years, 9 months ago

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February 12, 2003 09:07 AM

I have been reading "C++ from the ground up" by Herbert Schildt in my spare time. It was a good deal. Original price: $64.99 My price: $7.99. I just stared reading about classes last night and already I have fallen in love. I come form a modest background. DJGPP(c) and Allegro. NOw I am using mingw with allegro in an attempt to begin learning C++, OOP, and windows programming. Last night I made my first object. It was a blitter object (commonly reffered to as a "bob"). I loved my bob. My bob loved me. But somthing was missing. My bob was incomplete. I mean, sure. It dynamicly allocated and deallocated memmory for bitmaps, handled multiple frames for animation with varying speed, and took care of blitting and blit-time transformations such as rotations and translucency. but still it was incomplete. perhaps it was the confusion that was missing. The disorginization that was so prominant in similar code written in good ol'' c. Oh yes. I am converted. OOP makes programming so easy and fun. Its a breeze to do things that are unimaginably complicated otherwise. I love my bob. - Twisted Matrix

- Twisted Matrix

smart_idiot

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February 12, 2003 01:03 PM

Uh. . . I''m happy for you. . . I guess.

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Lektrix

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February 12, 2003 02:31 PM

Yes, please take a biscuit.

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February 12, 2003 08:37 PM

quote:
I loved my bob.

My bob loved me.

Wow. Isn't OOP lovely...

If you wrote it in CSP, you and your bob could just 'synchronise' on the event love and not bother with this complicated two-way it-loves-me-and-I-love-it-back thing.

edit: oops, lost the /quote

[edited by - g on February 12, 2003 9:37:48 PM]

neurokaotix

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February 12, 2003 08:41 PM

weird.

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DerekSaw

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February 12, 2003 09:28 PM

quote:
I loved my bob.

My bob loved me.

Two-way relationship (such as this) in the OOP world is quite dangerous.

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Advanced Bug

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February 13, 2003 02:33 AM

quote: Original post by TwistedMatrix
OOP makes programming so easy and fun. Its a breeze to do things that are unimaginably complicated otherwise.

WARNING: You are on the road to hell. Next two or three years you will spend in desperate and helpless attempts to learn fake, bogus programming methods that never work in the real life. You will question your sanity, you will feel stupid and different from other people, because you can''t come up with the "right" design. And then, one day, you will realize that you have been fooled - all the time and work has been wasted pointlessly, and you''ll have to re-learn everything.

However I''m not that stupid to hope you''ll believe me. But you have been warned.

Anonymous

February 13, 2003 08:02 AM

Uh... is that true?!

Fruny

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February 13, 2003 08:11 AM

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