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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">HI Alister,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Horses for courses.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Many programmers on this List work on just one or two large projects, in which case it is a no-brainer to use OO.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">On the other hand, many others are involved with many smaller projects, in which case the RAD approach wins out.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Somewhere along the way you need to make a call as to the cost effectiveness of either approach, in terms of the initial cost, ease of maintenance, system performance etc.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Personally I've always rolled my own Object Layers.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">cheers</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">Gary</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">A</span><span style=
"color:#FF0000 "><b>t 17:07 on 29/07/2008 you wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To : delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>CC : </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: Alister Christie, alister@salespartner.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Attached: </span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Do people on this list put in the effort to write proper object oriented </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>code, or write mostly RAD style code, using datasets with data-aware </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>controls and stuff - operating on a customer dataset, rather than the </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>somewhat more abstract instances of TCustomer for example? (does this </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>question make sense?)</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>-- </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Alister Christie</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Computers for People</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>http://www.salespartner.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>PO Box 13085</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>Johnsonville</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>Wellington </span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>_______________________________________________</span></span>
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"color:#008000 ">>Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz</span></span>
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<tr><td bgcolor=><FONT face="arial, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000099 size=2><B><A HREF="http://www.benner.co.nz" style="text-decoration:none; color:blue">Gary Benner & Associates</A></B></FONT></td></tr><br>
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<tr><td bgcolor=><FONT face="arial, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000099 size=2><B><A HREF="http://www.123.net.nz" style="text-decoration:none; color:blue">123 Internet Limited</A></B></FONT></td></tr><br>
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<tr><td bgcolor=><FONT face="arial, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000099 size=2><B><A HREF="http://www.waiariki.ac.nz" style="text-decoration:none; color:#993333">Waiariki Institute of Technology</A></B></FONT></td></tr><br>
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