The further we abstract ourselves from understanding of the platforms our code runs on, the worse off we are going to be. Our job as developers is to write sof

The further we abstract ourselves from understanding of the platforms our code runs on, the worse off we are going to be. Our job as developers is to write software that transforms data from one form to another. Any code that does not go directly to solving the transformation problem you have for the data you have is wasted time and wasted effort today, and will cost you additional time in performance and maintenance so long as that software is in service. The best code, the most big-free code, the most stable code, is the code that doesn't exist because it didn't need to be written in the first place. Browse an Enterprise Java application and tell me that there is no code there that couldn't have been written much more succinctly and run much faster in another language. Software development is not an art. It is a science - everything about programming and software execution can be measured and therefore measurable improvements can be observed. Almost no one does this -- why? Because of the "CPUs are cheap" and "RAM is cheap" excuses I have heard throughout my entire career. I have never even heard of a study of OOP that found OOP to be a superior methodology in any meaningful way whatsoever, and I don't think I ever will. I don't think that result could ever be observed without a very strong bias in the study.