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“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.” -- Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
by jkuria 6y ago
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”
-- Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
- Rochus 6y agoJust that it didn't originate in California, but in Norway, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula. What he probably meant was Smalltalk, but ironically the original Smalltalk-72 only had a subset of features of Simula. And another famous Dutchman is even the inventor of one of the most popular OO languages of today.