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SixSigma on March 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That

"Object Oriented design is the Roman Numerals of Computing" - Rob Pike

For more quotes see :

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/

Another, seeing as it's PG :

"The phrase 'object-oriented' means a lot of things. Half are obvious, and the other half are mistakes." — Paul Graham

ternaryoperator on March 30, 2014 [–]

While I admire both Pike and Graham, I've never liked the use of zingers to articulate a programming point. Invariably, programming involves trade-offs, acceptance of limitations in one dimension to gain benefits in another. So, zinging the limitations is easy to do and doesn't advance understanding.

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