C++ Was a Joke

[HP67]

Very nice, Garth. I write assembler for a living and I also use macros heavily. I don't like structured programming so I don't write those kinds of macros. I find IF/ENDIF useful but my code is usually not algorithmic so I don't have need for loop control.

What I do write macros for is to encapsulate control blocks and operations on them. We've been doing this before C++ came out btw I don't use OO but quite a lot of the concepts I do use and like are considered OO concepts after the fact. I think we all agree on the value of strict interfaces and encapsulation. We can go a bit further and package control blocks and fundamental operations on those control blocks like allocation and deallocation, serialization, chaining, etc. and come up with what would be considered an "object." As you, I don't do GUI, and I don't have a need for today's OO in any of the code I write. But you and I are writing assembly/assembler and most of the code today by volume is web stuff, and GUI, and that is mostly about using Java or other OO languages and OO GUI toolkits.

They did put men on the moon without OO, and I have worked on fairly good sized projects in assembler that run constantly in business-critical environments (as in if they don't work, people will lose their jobs and the lawyers will be popping open their briefcases) so nobody is going to convince me I need OOP or that OOP is the one true way. OTOH I don't think OOP is useless or wrong, it's just another tool in the bag to use or not use, as appropriate in each situation.