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Object Oriented programming considered harmful
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"*object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.*" -- Rob Pike
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OO is the "structured programming" snake oil of the 90'
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Useful at times, but hardly the "end all" programing paradigm some like to make
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out of it.
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And, at least in it's most popular forms, it's often more harmful than helpful.
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Inhiretance is more trouble than it's worth. Under the doubtful deguise of the
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holy "code reuse" an insane amount of gratuitous complexity is added to our
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enviroment, which makes necesary industrial cuantities of syntactical sugar to
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make the ensuing mess minimally manageable...
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People often forgets the 3 golden rules of programing as estated by Pike and
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Kernighan: Simplicity, Clarity, Generality.
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Limbo has all the adventages of Java(cross platform, high level) without the
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disadventages, and a much cleaner and simple "object model", not to mention the
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most wonderful "threading" framework(besides the Alef/Plan9's-libthread which
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is based in the same ideas).
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Too bad AT&T/Lucent fucked it up, but thanfully it's now truly Open/Free(unlike
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Java), go download it if you haven't tried it yet:
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http://cgi.www.vitanuova.com/cgi-bin/www.vitanuova.com/idown4e.pl
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An introdution by Brian W. Kernighan:
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http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html
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And other by Dennis M. Ritchie:
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http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/limbo.html
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I can deal with Python and Scheme if I have to though ;)
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And there is always portable asm... er I mean C.
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But Java(and other copies of the same stuff), *never again*, there are some
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things in life that once are more than enough.
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