Re: Picking the Tools -- Marrying processing models to data models

["W. E. Perry" <wperry@fiduciary.com>]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> Note that this is where I get lost as to Perry's thrust (no pun) because it
> looks as if he too advocates late binding across distributed systems, and I
> don't see how that constitutes an automatic endorsement of OO.

Hi Uche.

Yes, I am advocating a *very* late (and potentially one-off) binding. So now I am
confused as to where you get lost in this, or how this could possibly be construed
as any endorsement of OO. My conceptual difficulties with OO are similar to your
own. Not only do I embrace wholeheartedly your 'OO has a very limited concept of
polymorphism, which is really just late binding' argument, but I add to it my own
arguments that implementation of interfaces sufficiently congruent to qualify as
currently-understood OO practice is effectively impossible in the internetwork
topology.

Respectfully,

Walter Perry