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I haven't seen evidence of reduced getters & setters in my day to day yet - they still seem pretty prevalent when OOP comes into the picture. I'd even say they got a bit worse because now it's excessive getters and setters with gigantic JavaDoc style comments all around them. If I see "@returns id integer The ID" one more time I'll be tempted to throw my monitor out the window.

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What are you talking about? Get setters used to be 10 lines long like:

    int id;
    public int Id
    {
        get {
          return id;
        }
        set(val) {
            id = val;
        }
     }

They're now one liners, and obviously necessary

    public int Id { get; set; }

I don't keep up with Java any more, but C# has super short shortcuts for assignment like:

    public int Id { get; set; } => generateId();

If you, or your company, are misusing a completely optional documentation feature, which you definitely should not be using to annote obvious stuff like IDs, that's your problem, not OOPs.

Switching to a functional language won't save your monitor, you'll still be forced to write bad code if doing stupid things like that are in your style guide.

Your comment is entirely specific to C#. Java has no such shortcuts, its setters and getters look identical to how they looked in 1994:

    private int id;
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

> If I see "@returns id integer The ID" one more time I'll be tempted to throw my monitor out the window.

I honestly believe we're in a dire need for a more up-to-date metaphor that lets us better express our anger at a computer, due to monitors becoming paper thin and lightweight in the past decade or so.

> > If I see "@returns id integer The ID" one more time I'll be tempted to throw my monitor out the window.

> I honestly believe we're in a dire need for a more up-to-date metaphor that lets us express our anger at a computer, due to monitors becoming paper thin and lightweight in the past decade or so.

My experience may not be representative, but I believe I have encountered variants of "hurl the keyboard at the monitor" more often than "monitor out the window".

OTOH, that phrase doesn't account for laptops.

> OTOH, that phrase doesn't account for laptops.

It is also not anger-ready for people working on tablets with rubber keyboards attached.

Putting fist through the monitor?

Hitting the desk with a fist of moderate force is harmless and rattles lightweight modern computer equipment very satisfactorily.

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