http://p.einarsen.no/objects-and-your-brain-why-do-we-love-object-oriented-programming-so/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://p.einarsen.no/objects-and-your-brain-why-do-we-love-object-oriented-programming-so/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 Radian Programming Language » Blog Archive » Verb- versus noun-based models in cognitive psychology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:59:13 +0000 http://p.einarsen.no/?p=140#comment-1162 [...] the blog Psychology of Programming, these excerpts from a 1995 paper on object-oriented programming published in Human-Computer Interaction have some fascinating comments from cognitive psychology [...] [...] the blog Psychology of Programming, these excerpts from a 1995 paper on object-oriented programming published in Human-Computer Interaction have some fascinating comments from cognitive psychology [...]

]]> http://p.einarsen.no/objects-and-your-brain-why-do-we-love-object-oriented-programming-so/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Zan Usi Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:51:50 +0000 http://p.einarsen.no/?p=140#comment-1104 @Drug : Programming is not about modeling. It is about getting utlility from the computer; the user could not care less if there is some model behind the program or not. When modeling helps to develop and maintain the program, then use it, but I do not think that it is some automatic prerequisite to program construction. @Drug : Programming is not about modeling. It is about getting utlility from the computer; the user could not care less if there is some model behind the program or not. When modeling helps to develop and maintain the program, then use it, but I do not think that it is some automatic prerequisite to program construction.

]]> http://p.einarsen.no/objects-and-your-brain-why-do-we-love-object-oriented-programming-so/comment-page-1/#comment-896 Dru Nelson Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:14 +0000 http://p.einarsen.no/?p=140#comment-896 I'm glad you brought this up again. I believe all programming is really about human modeling and perception. Good post. I’m glad you brought this up again. I believe all programming is really about human modeling and perception. Good post.

]]> http://p.einarsen.no/objects-and-your-brain-why-do-we-love-object-oriented-programming-so/comment-page-1/#comment-895 John Siegrist Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:46:00 +0000 http://p.einarsen.no/?p=140#comment-895 It looks like OOP was adopted widely in the industry so that programmers could escape the tyrrany of structured programming methods and the heavy processes that became associated with them. So I'm not surprised to see that there was only a small amount of evidence supporting the claim that OOP was great. I believe we saw the same sort of enthusiastic response to agile methods and probably for much the same reason. It looks like OOP was adopted widely in the industry so that programmers could escape the tyrrany of structured programming methods and the heavy processes that became associated with them. So I’m not surprised to see that there was only a small amount of evidence supporting the claim that OOP was great. I believe we saw the same sort of enthusiastic response to agile methods and probably for much the same reason.

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