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Or because there are some situations where inheritance is useful. There was a reason Simula, Smalltalk, C++, Common Lisp (CLOS), Java, OCaml, Ruby, etc. impleme

Or because there are some situations where inheritance is useful. There was a reason Simula, Smalltalk, C++, Common Lisp (CLOS), Java, OCaml, Ruby, etc. implemented OOP. That's a lot of different languages. The program designers found it to be a useful abstraction and so did the language users. There's no reason to be dogmatic about programming abstractions. Just because OOP became dogma for a while and got abused doesn't mean we have to be dogmatic entirely in the opposite direction. Abstractions have their use for those programming languages that choose to implement them.

austin-cheney 1y ago
> There's no reason to be dogmatic I absolutely disagree. Some things in programming exist to bring products to market, but many things in programming only exist to bring programmers to market. That is a terrible and striking difference that results ultimately from an absence of ethics. Actions/decisions that exist only to discard ethical considerations serve only two objectives: 1) normalization of lower competence, 2) narcissism. It does not matter which of those two objectives are served, because the conclusions are the same either way.