[Tutor] Help - Where and when to use OOP

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 19 12:11:13 EST 2004


Lakmi munasinghe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a little exposure to OOP. I 'd like to know
> for what kind of programs that I should use OOP
> programming concepts and for what kind of programs
> that the stuctured programming would be more suited.
> 
> As far as I know if we don't see any repeating
> processes in our system applying OOP programming
> will cause no effect.In such cases we should manage
> with structured programming with functions and
> procedures where necessary. Am I correct ?
> 
> Lakmi

I'm not really sure what you mean my 'repeating
processes'. In general, you should use OOP when you
need more abstraction, reusability, and encapsulation.
Large projects, whether immediately aparent or not,
tend to need this. With small projects, you can go
either way.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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