> again IMO, demonstrate that the author never really understood OOP.
This is what they always say...strange how OOP is the one paradigm no one ever seems to understand, no matter how much is written about it. Seems to me like there isn't actually anything to understand.
Don't be a dick.
This is what they always say...strange how OOP is the one paradigm no one ever seems to understand, no matter how much is written about it. Seems to me like there isn't actually anything to understand.
It's not. Developers from various backgrounds frequently fail to understand all different kinds of development paradigms, and I've seen _just_ as much awful imperative code as I have awful OO code.
Don't worry, I won't.
> iterative code
I'm not really sure what that is. But I notice OO is unique in that "you don't understand it" is always the main defense. The trouble is that, when people can't even agree on a definition of OO, it is genuinely not clear that there is anything to understand. There is always some OO best practice that is ill defined and contradicts the advice yesterday. No one from OO land seems to enjoy math very much so you don't get precise definitions, you get "patterns" and "I know it when I see it".
That was a typo of "imperative", sorry.
But I notice OO is unique in that "you don't understand it" is always the main defense
It's really, really not. This kind of argument comes up in a number of places, and I think there's a commonality – it tends to appear where systems are flexible, open-ended, and easy to start using, such that people tend to pick them up without thinking about how and why they will be using the tool. You see the same thing with "agile" for example.
OO isn't complicated. At the most basic level, it's just taking a data structure that you might use in any other programming approach, and attaching functions to it as methods. Go is object-oriented in this sense, for example.
Problems arise when bad implementations of OO concepts appear – but pointing at say excessively-enterprise Java and saying "this is evidence that OO is bad" doesn't really hold any water.