[rescue] Re: G5 case

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:45:30PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
> >>>    Sometimes I think I'm the only person on earth that's seen
> >>> lightning-fast Java applications.
> >>
> >> All day I deal with great Java software that's lightning fast.  Of 
> >> course,
> >> it's all written in-house.
> >>
> >> That said, I don't find OpenOffice to be slow at all.  Perhaps my 
> >> defenition
> >> of "slow" is different than other folks.
> >
> > I find starting any of the OO applications to be
> > slow, but once they are started they seem okay to
> > me.
> 
>    I'm of the opinion that OO *anything* is going to be slower than the 
> same application written in a procedural language.  Like it or not, 
> computers aren't object-oriented devices...they're entirely procedural. 

Umm, I think we have a case of UAC - unfortunate acronym confusion.
The poster was talking about OpenOffice, not OO programming.

--Patrick