No to Object Oriented: Linus Torvald

Linus Torvalds on C+

Alan Kay on OOP

This article shows some very basic conceptual error in OOP: Alan Kay Was Wrong (About Him Being Wrong)

There is no encapsultion, there is no modularity, there is no progress in abastraction with OOP.

The reality of OOP

A good demonstration, by an expert user of OOP, of the failure of this idea. Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming

FP x OOP

Is functional programming more effective than object-oriented programming?

OOP Kaput!

OOP is an expensive disaster which must end

Agile turned mainstream

And object oriented also did. That is good. But are the methodologies really used as they should? It seems that... no.

The Vietnam war of IT

It is the object x relational models. Hard to solve. Perhaps both models were too restrictive?

See also The Filesystem Test. What about having a simples model and build upon it?

To think about a different model: a universal machine. Turing? Von Neumann? Lambda calculus?

How to Write Code That Embraces Change

Good advice to OOP users. Can't we do it in a simpler manner with functional programming?

Avoid Object Oriented Programming

Good advices: "In many programming courses and tutorials, everything is going along just fine when there's a sudden speed bump of vocabulary: objects and constructors and abstract base classes and private methods. Then in the next assignment the simple three-element tuple representing an RGB color is replaced by a class with getters and setters and multiple constructors and--most critically--a lot more code." in OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing. It just put OOP in its right place.

See also Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP: "The shift from procedural to OO brings with it a shift from thinking about problems and solutions to thinking about architecture."

Life Without Objects

A practitionner analysis:

"...objects have been a diversion away from building concise, well structured and reusable software... The benefits of objects have been gradually declining over a long period of time."

Avoid starting with OOP

Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP.

"The shift from procedural to OO brings with it a shift from thinking about problems and solutions to thinking about architecture... At some point, yes, you'll need to discuss how to create objects in Python, but resist for as long as you can."

Object-oriented programming, where is it now?

Good thinking on OO from a programmer with practical experience: Programming like it's 1995