Re: OOP slow -- am I an idiot?

Tony Marston wrote:

"Stut" <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote in message news:452ED193.8080707@gmail.com...

My general approach to designing a system is data-centric. I tend to start by defining the database schema since getting that clear in my head tends to lead me to a decent design.

What a coincidence! That's exactly my approach, but I've taken it one step further. I always start with a properly normalised database which I can then import into my daa dictionary application. From there I can press a button and create a class file for each database table, and I am ptting the finishing touhes to a procedure whereby I can press another button to generate the scripts which will maintain each table. This means I can get basic transactions up and running without writing a single line of code. All I have to do is edit these files to include business logic and any customisations. This level of automation is not possible with some people's OO implementations, so I can only conclude that their approach is not the optimal one.

Youch!! Your implementation seems to be focused on development efficiency rather than runtime efficience. In all but rare research projects this is backwards for a web-based system. This is exactly the practice I am trying to discourage. It's a well-known fact that code generators are a poor substitute for real developers.

For most projects I don't start out with OOP in mind, but my brain is used to building OOP-style systems so nearly everything I do ends up with a few classes.

The difference with me is that I don't waste my time with trivial websites, I concentrate on administrative web applications. But even when I wrote the code for my own website at http://www.radicore.org I still used all my database classes as it was far easier than doing it the traditional old-fashioned way

Trivial websites are where you can get away with using code generators. For anything non-trivial I would not feel comfortable with a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none-style of code. Now that I think of it I'm quite anal about the quality of my code, so I don't think I'd ever use a code generator - never have before. -Stut