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> OOP is good when used appropriately What are its appropriate uses? The more I program the fewer I see.
by loup-vaillant 2y ago
> OOP is good when used appropriately
What are its appropriate uses? The more I program the fewer I see.
- Instantix 2y agoProjects describing the real world. A car have a motor which have pistons. But can be a mess for inappropriate projects for sure.
- loup-vaillant 2y ago> Projects describing the real world. Yeah, one of the 3 big lies of computer programming: thinking that we should program around a model of the world. We should program around a model of the data that we need to transform to solve whatever problem we need to solve. Even in simulation software like games. A car have a motor which have pistons. But why would I model that? To be honest I’m not sure OOP is appropriate even for CAD software here. Now maybe we could give the user the ability to make a mesh and call that "piston", an let them copy & paste that mesh to build a super-mesh they would call "motor", but this kind of composition is not quite OOP, and the appropriate way to program this stuff is probably not OOP either.