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Most developers touting OOP don't know those languages; so why should we care what their opinions are concerning OOP as a paradigm. If you exclude one person b
by fao_ 11y ago
Most developers touting OOP don't know those languages; so why should we care what their opinions are concerning OOP as a paradigm.
If you exclude one person because they disagree with X and don't know Y, then you must equally disregard all who agree with and disagree with X, because they don't know Y. Otherwise you're just cherrypicking :)
- vmsisbetter 11y agoFine by me, since those developers are doing so on behalf of systems like Java and Python, which fall far below the mark. However, it has become quite trendy to bash OOP itself, especially here on HN, without acknowledging that there are less awful ways of doing it that just aren't mainstream. Try making similarly blanket criticisms of FP here using Python (Why, it has lambdas and list comprehensions after all--isn't that enough?) or some other impure language and see what happens.