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Re:Why we need to create careers for research software engin... by xiaoma on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:39PM (#10556998)
Limited OO use sounds like a very good thing unless you're building a gui.
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Re:Why we need to create careers for research software engin... by jdminhbg on Thursday November 12, 2015 @06:49PM (#10557044)
It's not "limited OO" in the sense of "well-reasoned FP instead," but rather piles of copy/pasted procedural code.
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Re:Why we need to create careers for research software engin... by Retra on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:36PM (#10557490)
If you're not doing inheritance (which you often aren't,) a module of well-designed functions does a pretty good impression of OOP.
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