Which he doesn't really address, nor do the two opinions necessarily clash (at least not totally). Diederich's talk is mostly about avoiding to write superfluou

Which he doesn't really address, nor do the two opinions necessarily clash (at least not totally). Diederich's talk is mostly about avoiding to write superfluous classes. Quite often a simple module with one or two function suffices. His examples look quite different from those in the blog post. (Although I have to admit that I skimmed most of them, as I'm in serious eyeroll territory whenever I see the old Java IO API used as a bad example again.)