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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by ams6110 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:31AM (#15644756)
> I wish we could just use variables and functions, that's all we need really.

You still can. You need decent data structures too, but I never in over 20 years really "got" OOP. It seemed needlessly complicated. Functions and data always seemed to do the job for me.

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by digi_owl on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:31PM (#15646083)
OOP as most people get to know it seems to be a bleak application of the original concept.

And the original was not aimed at dealing with the internals of a single program sitting on a single CPU, but grand simulations running on massive clusters. There each "object" would could very well be a process of its own, running on its own dedicated hardware.

Effectively OOP became another one of those buzzwords on the bingo board...

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