OOP considered horrible
LWN links to an essay by Kimbro Staken about excessive use of OOP.
Kimbro is replying to a truly awful article by Bergin and Winder on "Understanding Object Oriented Programming". Go and read it yourself, and see if you agree that an interacting system of seven files and fifteen methods is really clearer than a single procedure. Poop indeed. (Or perhaps it's a really subtle spoof? If so, it deserves a prize, though they should have dated it 1 April to give us a bit of a clue.)
Simon Willison and Jarno Virtanen have more to say about it.
posted Thu 18 Dec 2003 in /software/aesthetics | link
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