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Yes, but the remnants of OO still linger, both in people's minds and code.
by silverwind 3y ago
Yes, but the remnants of OO still linger, both in people's minds and code.
- klysm 3y agoMost importantly in people’s minds. A lot of early educational content is rooted in flawed software philosophy that is carried out into the world
- usrusr 3y agoThere are still remnants of ideological OOP use around and they are terrible indeed, but remnants on the language level are perfectly fine as long as they are not used as originally intended. Paraphrasing Crockford, we have found OOP, the good parts. It's used for structuring code now, not for modelling the world. That's a huge difference.
- DonHopkins 3y agoWell if people wouldn't keep brutally deconstructing it [1] then serving it up as a delicious la carte menu [2] of tempting indulgences, maybe object programming will finally die! [1] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html [2] http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html