It's somehow unbelievable how long this getter/setter convention has been used (at least?) in java - People mindlessly generating them with their IDE - and nobody cared to question it and/or think of a better way before.
Not sure if "they are OO" (and what's the point?), but I think getters and setters usually are not needed and only add a lot of useless boilerplate code. Maybe in your boss's eyes it might look like you've been writing a lot of code. :)
But of course sometimes they are useful, and those times I think python's approach would be a better way. Maybe some other languages have even better ways to accomplish this?
Not sure if "they are OO" (and what's the point?), but I think getters and setters usually are not needed and only add a lot of useless boilerplate code. Maybe in your boss's eyes it might look like you've been writing a lot of code. :)
But of course sometimes they are useful, and those times I think python's approach would be a better way. Maybe some other languages have even better ways to accomplish this?