I managed to find this link that I sent to a colleague some time back.
Brian Will: Why OOP is Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
-----Original Message-----
From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 5:05 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?
Richard Schoen wrote:
Do you [Justin] have some examples of how these former disgrunted OO devs have found OO programming to be flawed ?
Just curious since your statement seems pretty generic.
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have any links. When I typed " object oriented programming is" into Google, it suggested bad, dead and overrated. So you might try there.
I don't personally understand it well enough to explain, which was why I was vague.
Yeah, you can find lots of articles that argue against OOP if you just Google around a little.
I have used OOP enough to see for myself some of the pitfalls, though I am definitely not in the "OOP is inherently harmful" camp.
Some criticisms are predictable and partisan. In particular, the pro-functional-paradigm crowd rails against anything that doesn't shun side-effects and state. Basically, imperative procedural programming (as exemplified by C or RPG) is *all about* side-effects and state.
Then when you throw OO on top of that, you get to elevate these "evils" to even greater prominence.
Most remaining criticisms tend to be of the form "OOP can be overused or misused". They certainly aren't wrong, but you can easily show how any programming paradigm can be overused or misused.
Personally, I think the juggernaut of Java and the massive effort put in by Sun to promote Java (which ultimately proved successful) has a lot of people feeling OOP was overhyped. So there's a backlash from folks who hate anything that's *too* popular, and also some disappointed folks who bought into the hype and are coming off their honeymoon period.
Meanwhile, plenty of folks seem to be using OOP effectively and building useful, working software with it.
John Y.
midrange.com
