Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?

Re:Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger ... by joemanaco on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:33PM (#13169268)

I've wasted many, many years thinking OOP is the right way to do things and just realized in 99% it's the wrong approach to develop software. In the end you always end up in a big mess of classes, dependencies. And every now and then new there are new best-practices, design patterns or solutions to fix the problems only to make it even more complex.

Please watch this video. I don't agree 100% but with most of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

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Re:Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger ... by Shorel on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:34PM (#13177847)

I learned that lesson with the transition from WordPerfect 5.1 to WP 6.0.

The new Object Oriented WP 6.0 macro language was unable to do the things I did with the 5.1 macro language (a typewriter mode for diacritics plus spell checker plus smart commas and smart spaces).

Since then, I have always been an skeptic about OOP.

Also: closures are not too different to instantiated objects, one can usually convert from one style to the other while keeping all functionality.

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