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Richard --
 
It's really not an Either-Or situation.
 
There is no such thing as a "highly computational application" -- there are,
however, applications that include *pieces* that are highly computational.
 
This means that you can write your application in an OOP framework, and gain
all of the usual advantages of that. Then if you have some highly computational
sections to write, feel free to do them as straight Pascal or C (whichever
you're more comfortable with; performance differences usually relate more to
the efficiency of your particular compiler [and the cleverness of your
particular programmers] than to language choice). Many strictly computational
tasks will not benefit by an artificial recasting into an object-oriented
metaphor.
 
As long as you can plug in performance-critical modules written in straight C,
Pascal, assembler, or whatever, you should pick your framework on criteria
other than performance.
 
-- Dave Goldman
   Research Software Design