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[clawrenc at cup.hp.com]

In <338c1fce.16025866 at relay.mnsinc.com>, on 05/23/97 
   at 09:48 AM, caliban at darklock.com (Caliban Tiresias Darklock) said:

>The problem I see in projects built using proper OOP in C++ is that
>the same data is validated over... and over... and over... and
>over... because none of the objects can make any assumptions about
>the others, so they can't ever take for granted that someone else has
>validated the data. If they did, they'd break the whole reuse thing. 

Actually that's what I've been doing with stratight C and procedural
programming for years.  I've always been a big fan of heavy sanity
checking.  Then OOP came along and made it de rigeuer.

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