[DUG] OO Programming

[Phil Scadden]

> >From my POV, RAD is generally taken to mean what the acronym stands for,Rapid Application Development; i.e. drop some components on to a form, wire up a few event handlers, voila.
>   
> RAD does not lend itself to larger apps which are intended to be easily maintainable and intended to be worked on by a team of developers.
>   
RAD works for rapid development of prototypes - going beyond that takes 
more thought but then encapsulating the required objects as components 
can work well - especially if there is some thought put into 
reusability. I would be in class where mostly the point is to get 
something that works as fast as possible and has little lifetime beyond 
current research project. RAD obviously is the key here but so is the 
library of gazillion objects from previous work. Going beyond prototype 
actually often also means taking it out of Delphi or making a 
client/server split, but I find it hard to beat Delphi for the prototyping.
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