[PRL] Bob Harper's new blog

Dimitris Vardoulakis dimvar at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Mar 16 18:59:13 EDT 2011


What are the arguments for OO being anti-modular and anti-parallel? Is there
a pointer to a paper or blog post or sth?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Mitch wrote:
> > The first few posts have been interesting.
>
> That's a polite way of putting it.
>
> > Link:
> > http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/teaching-fp-to-freshmen/
>
> Clicking on the archive link, I read his essay on "Boolean
> Blindness".  The first sentence of its sixth paragraph is
> flat-out wrong, but it seems unfair to mention just that
> one sentence when so many others vie for that distinction.
>
> I also noticed this tidbit from "Teaching FP to freshmen":
>
>    Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely
>    from the introductory curriculum, because it is both
>    anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature,
>    and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum.
>
> From what I understand, we have a possibly moribund committee
> that's supposed to decide what if anything can be done about
> CS 3500, Object-Oriented Design.  Just in case any other
> members of that committee are reading this, I move that Bob
> Harper's sentence above be adopted as that committee's main
> recommendation to our dean.
>
> Will
>
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Dimitris
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