Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 23/11/2024 08:52, Pancho wrote:

I genuinely like OO design. It is the way I naturally think of program structure. It maps well to designing service orientated architectures.

Oh, in terms of keeping things that are closely related in the same place syntactically, its great.
But the syntax so used is weird arcane and occasionally crap.
You don't need C++ to write object oriented code in.
And thereby hangs the problem. Its Yet Another Computer Scientist creating a language that tries to enforce an approach, rather than providing tools to make such an approach possible *if you want it*.
far too much stress on the language and none at all on the software *engineering* approach of problem analysis, decomposition, documentation, construction of code and subsequent stress testing.
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