RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Kyle W. <ky...@ga...>]

Brian Hook wrote:
> The problem I see is that a lot of coders today are trying very hard to
> hide the details because this OOP dogma of "encapsulation, look at
> interfaces only, DON'T THINK ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION!" has been shoved
> down everyone's throats so much that you almost feel guilty knowing
> whether an operation might be expensive or not.

Well, in all fairness I think that on a large team (e.g., Bioware's
Neverwinter Nights team, which had *22* programmers) it's just impossible to
keep track of all the details of other engineers implementations.  The teams
I've worked on have averaged 10-12 programmers and generally haven't had
what I consider great internal communication.  Under those circumstances,
separation of interface from implementation and avoidance of memory
ownership issues are Good Things, despite the costs.

Kyle