On: The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and...

[iainmerrick]

The OOP that the author "never understood" is what we see ALL the time in enterprise and startup code.

Well, is there a paradigm where you tend to see mostly good code? If so I’ve never come across it. Besides plenty of bad OO, I’ve seen bad functional programming, bad reactive programming, very bad state machines. Bad code is bad code.

(And what other categories of code are you thinking of, besides “enterprise and startup”? Those two would seem to cover a pretty wide range.)

[coldtea → iainmerrick]

>besides “enterprise and startup”

There are several:

FOSS projects like Gnome/KDE can be said are neither enterprise or startup.

Industrial coding (e.g. to control operations in a factory)

Embedded code.

Hobbyist projects.

Games.

Application development (desktop apps and co).

[curl_e → coldtea]

- Research software (e.g. scientific)