[Tutor] Help - Where and when to use OOP

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 20 22:16:47 EST 2004


> I agree with all Daniel says here. I'd also add that
> programs where you have to process large amounts of 
> identical data in the same way are often easier
> written 
> in a procedural way - a sequence of transforming
> functions 
> - than trying to model the problem as objects.

You would have to go through the data in the exact
same way, because if there were small varations or
multiple things are extracted lazily from the same
data (eg. sometimes only some of it is used), it would
make more sense to use an object-oriented model.

Daniel Ehrenberg

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