14.2. 14.2 General Principles
Before discussing the mechanisms behind OOP, it is probably a good idea to take a step back and explore the benefits of using OOP (especially in assembly language programs). Most texts that describe the benefits of OOP will mention buzzwords like "code reuse," "abstract data types," "improved development efficiency," and so on. While all of these features are nice and are good attributes for a programming paradigm, a good software engineer would question the use of assembly language in an environment where "improved development efficiency" is an important goal. After all, you can probably obtain far better efficiency by using a high level language (even in a non-OOP fashion) than you can by using objects in assembly ...
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