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Posted by Chung Leong on 07/25/06 17:41
Kenneth Downs wrote:
> Just for the sake of adding some balance to any conversation that might
> arise, many people believe that adopting too much OO is a worsening of bad
> habits. It reveals itself in exactly the words you are using, "insane
> abstraction".
>
> There's a great satire (that I could not find on Google) about an
> "advancing" computer programmer. As a beginner his Hello World! programs
> take 2-3 lines. As he gets smarter and smarter they get larger and larger,
> until it takes pages of OO-abstracted deeply nested hierarchies of objects
> just to get a gol'darn Hello World! onto the page. Very sobering stuff.
Hehe. I call it the Emperor's New Coat syndrome. Even when it's plain
to see that there is not need to wrap something in a class, people do
it anyway because they're afraid that others will say they're stupid.
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