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Re:REPL Driven Design by fizixer on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:52PM (#23343207)
Bob Martin belongs to the OO-evangelism camp that emerged from the OO fad of mid-1990s.

Another OO-evanglist who belongs to this camp is Ron Jeffries.

For a textbook example of how much of a snake-oil OO-evangelism is, checkout the sudoku solver fiasco involving Ron Jeffries and Peter Norvig (you'll find plenty of search results regarding this).

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Re:REPL Driven Design by wglb on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:14PM (#23344208)
That was a dramatic failure of TDD, contrasted with Peter's enlightened solution.
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Re:REPL Driven Design by inopinatus on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:07PM (#23343391)
I’m no fan of Bob Martin, but the Ron Jeffries fiasco was a failure of TDD, not of OOP. The meandering inability to focus on writing a solution, instead becoming lost in modelling the problem, is a hallmark of the tunnel vision that TDD engenders. He’d have screwed it up in Prolog.
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