[OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2019-11-11 08:51 -0800
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Subject	[OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing?
From	Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name>

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On Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:39:13 UTC+1, Julio Di Egidio  wrote:
[<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/mJ2OT-alxrg/ponJu3CvAwAJ>]
> On Saturday, 9 November 2019 12:55:22 UTC+1, John G Harris  wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 02:02:47 -0800 (PST), Julio Di Egidio
> > <julio.diegidio.name> wrote:
> >   <snip>
> > >For the chronicle, OOP uber alles is a plain fraud, 
> >   <snip>
> > 
> > Is it OO *Programming* or OO *Design* that you criticise? Certainly
> > OOD suffers from a lot of hype and extremism. People who don't really
> > know what they're doing are encouraged to go mad and describe
> > everything as an object.
> 
> Sorry, just a slip, I meant the infamous OO uber alles, which of course is
> about the whole paradigm, not about this or that particular construct (and
> you forget analysis, OOA: and who could blame you, since analysis has been
> literally and purposely obliterated from the panorama top begin with, in
> order to open the doors to that ungodly nonsense called vendor-driven
> development? Of software, courses certificates, books, conferences, and
> what not, including *necessarily* broken development paradigms...).

"Political" issues aside, from a strictly technical point of view I would
maintain that object oriented programming (meaning the whole idea) in its
essence is *misplaced meta-programming*!

Thoughts?

Julio

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[OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-11 08:51 -0800
  Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-11 10:54 -0800
    Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-12 07:09 -0800
      Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-12 12:30 -0800
        Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2019-11-14 19:29 +0100
          Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-14 10:40 -0800
          Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-15 11:09 -0800
            Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2019-11-16 04:05 +0100
        Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-13 05:45 -0800
          Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-13 05:53 -0800
            Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-13 10:44 -0800
          Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-13 10:42 -0800
    Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-14 08:18 -0800
    Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-14 09:44 -0800
      Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-11-15 11:16 -0800
        Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2019-11-17 15:13 +0000
    Re: [OT] Object orientation: is this still a thing? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2019-11-13 18:46 +0000

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