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vkazanov

The problem is that once you exclude domain-specific hierarchy from the discussion, there's not much left of OOP.

It's just data + relevant functions. Which is ok.

That's all there is, really.

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And Rich Hickey calls out even that last feature as a mistake, and I tend to agree.

https://gist.github.com/reborg/dc8b0c96c397a56668905e2767fd6...

You get it

> "OO is not bad when there is an actual entity - i.e. a stream, a socket, a window, etc to which an object corresponds, or in a simulation of actual entities. That's where it was born and where it shines. … For instance, don't customers buy products? Which should own the functions that involve both?"

What is the purpose of the customers / products app?

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