Funny... two posts with OOP in the subject within a few minutes of each other, yet referring to two completely different things! Now, how often is THAT gonna happen?!?!?! > -----Original Message----- > From: "Ray Keefe" <ray@...> > > I said, > > "LAW 3.x will run on Win95 but the timing is likely to suck big time." > > and I should have said, > > "LAW 4.x will run on Win95 but the timing is likely to suck big time." > > Sorry for the confusion, > > Ray > > > AND ALSO: My experience with OOP is that, unless the designers are very careful, it is harder to write systems with very fast real time response for every condition. But LAxx is a very fast real time response kind of application. Encapsulation and inheritance are great for making a complex task easier to code, but they generally increase latency. That is the tradeoff, hide the detail to make the design task easier and less bug prone, recuce interaction issues, control interfaces between object, but increase the depth of the call stack to recover the hidden details.