Re:Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
by coldtea on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:25AM
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>The thing about OO is that as far as I can tell, it's natural
How so? If it was natural, it wouldn't take 30 years of programming to arrive to it (and in a bad way).
>The usefulness of OO is exactly that allows, partially, some totally fungly thing like "network credentials permissions" to be treated, sort of, like a thing, we sort of, understand, a fricken car.
Cars have instance variables and methods? You car.drive() your car?
How so? If it was natural, it wouldn't take 30 years of programming to arrive to it (and in a bad way).
>The usefulness of OO is exactly that allows, partially, some totally fungly thing like "network credentials permissions" to be treated, sort of, like a thing, we sort of, understand, a fricken car.
Cars have instance variables and methods? You car.drive() your car?