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Kent Beck, Martin Fowler come to mind. Sure Alan Kay thinks the same too. Though I don't really understand the question. Whether OO is good or not is a differe

• coldtea 6y ago
  >Kent Beck, Martin Fowler come to mind. Sure Alan Kay thinks the same too. Alan Kay? Alan Kay has had the worst to say about OOP as its known ("but there's a different good paradigm, which real-world OOP devs in C++/Java/etc might not use, but Alan Kay had in mind and Smalltalk offers" is not really a rebuttal"). >Though I don't really understand the question. Whether OO is good or not is a different question, and I'd posit the more important one. And we can't divine the answer to that question. But we can see what the luminaries have to say about it. I'd rather follow the good examples/advice (of those that did major practical work in CS) that take some "objective" (how?) answer to the matter as gospel.