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Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong

harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks

My principle objection to OOP goes back to the basic ideas involved, I will outline some of these ideas and my objections to them.

Joe Armstrong is the creator of Erlang. He has 4 objections to OOP:

  1. He says functions and data structures are very different, so it's incorrect to bind them together. Feels like a weak argument to me.

  2. He somehow says that everything being an objects is wrong, and everything should be a different type instead. This is an even weaker argument.

  3. He dislikes that he can't put all the types in one file. Yeah, it's good you can't!

  4. And something incoherent about states.

I'm not the biggest fan of OOP myself, but this rant is just useless. I am keeping this bookmark just because the site looks cool.