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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by brlewis on Monday September 24, 2007 @03:45PM (#59035)
I don't think most Lisp hackers actually hate OO. It's just that OO has been oversold so much, as if you should use it for everything. I would use OO a lot if I were writing a MUD or a graphical widget library. Inheritance is great. For web sites I generally don't use OO, though.

I think it would be more accurate to say that if you use OO, many Lisp hackers will ask why, in a tone that implies they don't expect a good answer.

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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by ptn on Monday September 24, 2007 @07:07PM (#59149)
I think that OOP has some great ideas and some bad ideas. I really like polimorphism and inheritance, but I'm not that fond of encapsulation. OOP is just another tool and, just like with any other tool, it isn't meant for everything. The problem is, people seem to think that it really is meant for everything.
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