Does OO Sync with How We Think?(2)

• Other than GUI building, ACM surveys have not shown reuse to be a strong success with C++

• Claim: OO is not a good match for human reasoning - inheritance and polymorphism use long-term memory rather than short-term memory

  • Encapsulation “at least partially fits how we think”

• Possible problems with the paper

  • Entanglement of C++ & OO
  • First C++ project?
  • Relatively small systems
  • C++ system did more than the C system in the same size?

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