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OO - real benefits

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2004-10-09 05:53:07 - Graham Ellis

I was reminded of the real power of OO based systems and good object design yesterday. Taking a whole series of already-written classes, I was able to bolt together a new application based on the same data in just a few lines of code and get it running on a website too. The real saving comes not in the early development, but rather in the ongoing reuse. "Design Matters".