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What are your programming hot takes? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

It's intuitive until you realise that not everything fits in a single inheritance hierarchy.

This gives a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfMtDGfHWpA

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think of OOP as encapsulation, abstraction, and polymorphism primarily. Inheritance is definitely taught as part of it, but it seems like most people have found that to be the least used part of it.

    It seems like you understand oop, but find it overrated, from your post it sounded like you didn't understand it -- but maybe you meant you didn't understand it's popularity.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I absolutely understand OOP, its explosion took over everything that took a long time to recover from.

    The problem with OOP is that it's pushed as a cure-all both by teachers who do not the problems it solves and also do not understand its own limitations.

    In almost every situation where OOP makes sense, something else makes more sense to use.

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