OOP is a construct of oppression installed by the burgoise

8 months ago by da_cow (she/her) to c/programmer_humor

ms_lane 99 points 8 months ago

replaces Classes with Functions

code is still parsed from the top down and some functions are more privileged than others

It's just like Lenin wanted!

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Juice 31 points 8 months ago

The Comintern has reviewed this comment and found it quite funny

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jjjalljs 75 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I still see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING" and I'm wondering who in 2026 isn't at least passably familiar with it.

But then again I also see job posts that are like "must know Java or JavaScript"

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favoredponcho 32 points 8 months ago

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marcos 24 points 8 months ago

What is not clear is if the software development division updated their practices.

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MirrorGiraffe 5 points 8 months ago

Exactly, if there's even the slightest risk that I'll need to dust off the good ol ajax that's a nope from me.

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bestboyfriendintheworld 4 points 8 months ago

There’s a lot of legacy stuff around. I saw some CORBA in the wild recently.

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irelephant 1 point 8 months ago

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ThirdConsul 5 points 8 months ago

Considering most people only know procedural programming and are calling it functional/objective...

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red_tomato 47 points 8 months ago

Seize the means of prod!

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xep 21 points 8 months ago

Or just prod! Seize prod

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squaresinger 14 points 8 months ago

Deploy broken code straight to prod?

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cows_are_underrated 14 points 8 months ago

Testing is for those who are not confident in their programming skills.

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Zos_Kia 5 points 8 months ago

testing is doubting

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a14o 31 points 8 months ago

Object.property = theft;

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entwine 12 points 8 months ago

sieze(worker, ObjectFactory.meansOfProduction);

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ZomieChicken 28 points 8 months ago

Or do as Alan Kay wants and start calling it "Message-Oriented Programming".

"I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is "messaging"."

https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/...

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entwine 8 points 8 months ago

I still get sad when I think about Objective C and how it didn't take off vs C++ just because it had ugly syntax (which becomes beautiful once you understand why it is the way it is)

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bestboyfriendintheworld 4 points 8 months ago

I’m still mad at Apple for making Swift instead of Objective-C 3.0. It was such a powerful and small language.

C++ has a billion features and Swift is getting more every year.

Objective-C was fast to compile, great in a debugger, and allowed lots of creativity and patching broken system components.

Lots of great software was written with it. CocoaBindings are magical.

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plyth 4 points 8 months ago

Why is it the way it is?

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entwine 6 points 8 months ago

Both C++ and Objective-C aimed to be "C with classes". C++ does it by hijacking existing syntax (struct), Objective-C does it by adding new syntax, while leaving the original minimalism of C untouched.

In fact, it's a strict superset of C, which means it doesn't change anything at all in C, it only appends. So every valid C program is a valid Objective C program (which is not true for C++).

You know how some C programs are valid C++ programs though? Well, those same programs can use Objective C features too, meaning you're able to use them in C++... Meaning you're able to code in "Objective C++" (which is very common for interop purposes)

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presoak 2 points 8 months ago

I skimmed that.

So you've got a bunch of message transceivers (aka objects). And the magic is in the message soup.

Yes?

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ZomieChicken 1 point 8 months ago

From my understanding, yes. Personally, I've seen so many different definitions of "OOP" (most of which were incoherent), I developed my own definition of what an 'object' is, and just go on with life.

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Lili_Thana 11 points 8 months ago

Fuck OOP all my homies use DOD.

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pipe01 12 points 8 months ago

Department of defense?

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SexualPolytope 9 points 8 months ago

It's DoW now, baby. And apparently, it's over 50,000!

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Lili_Thana 8 points 8 months ago

Data Oriented Design

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Bazell 3 points 8 months ago

And then the code has removed your whole database.

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Juice 3 points 8 months ago

This but unironically

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rain_worl 0 points 8 months ago

in scheme, everything* is first class!
*i haven't checked

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