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I was thinking, since we have a general programming bored, why not setup a general Object Oriented Programming board, quick/easy way to find OO associated topics and such, just a suggestion ^^

I'm against. There are already enough programming forums, and the programming section of these forums is (IMO) not popular enough to constitute a reason to make more programming forums.

OOP topics fit on the General Programming forum, on the Advanced Programming forum (if they don't suck), usually on one of the C++, Java, .NET forums...

I agree with Yoni.  I don't think we need yet another forum just yet.

OOP is not off topic for general programming.  Who uses an non-OOP language anymore?  IBM mainframe programmers(RPG) maybe.  That makes OOP a pretty general topic, I would say.

.NET has its own forum, as does Java, because there's practically no overlap between those.  People interested in something Java specific really arent just learning how to code a loop, they're wanting to talk about Java class libraries, design patterns, and related topics.  Same with .NET people.

Quote from: Grok on March 12, 2004, 10:14 PM
OOP is not off topic for general programming.  Who uses an non-OOP language anymore?  IBM mainframe programmers(RPG) maybe.  That makes OOP a pretty general topic, I would say.

Anyone who programs in C. That makes up the majority of the *nix operating system developers.

Quote from: Maddox on March 12, 2004, 10:40 PM

Quote from: Grok on March 12, 2004, 10:14 PM
OOP is not off topic for general programming.  Who uses an non-OOP language anymore?  IBM mainframe programmers(RPG) maybe.  That makes OOP a pretty general topic, I would say.

Anyone who programs in C. That makes up the majority of the *nix operating system developers.

All the ones I know tend to have begun using C++ at least a little.

Quote from: iago on March 13, 2004, 03:33 AM

Quote from: Maddox on March 12, 2004, 10:40 PM

Quote from: Grok on March 12, 2004, 10:14 PMOOP is not off topic for general programming.  Who uses an non-OOP language anymore?  IBM mainframe programmers(RPG) maybe.  That makes OOP a pretty general topic, I would say.

Anyone who programs in C. That makes up the majority of the *nix operating system developers.

All the ones I know tend to have begun using C++ at least a little.

Until we stop using C, we're still using non-OOP languages.  Using an OOP language for some projects (or even within a non-OOP project) does not mean abandoning the other design philosophy/techniques.