Exploring the philosophy of objects

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On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 18:05:31 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
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> ...
> Whether tables or objects are a better way of organizing data 
> is a decades-old debate that I have no intention of wading into 
> here. Regardless of which you prefer, you must admit that both 
> tables and objects have a long history of successful use in 
> real-world software.

When people see something as challenging their belief, they do 
tend to dig in, and turn it into a lonnnnggg debate ;-)

But really, OO decompostion is just a tool. It's not an idealogy 
(although many throughout computing history have pushed it as 
such).

It's just a tool. That is all it is. Nothing more.

It's a tool you should have the option of using, when you think 
it's needed.

A screw driver makes for a lousy hammer. Just pick the right tool 
for the job.

If you're trying to model a virtual city, you'll almost have to 
use object decomposition. I mean, it makes complete sense that 
you would. Of course, you could model it using logic chips - but 
why would you?

On the otherhand, if your writing a linker, it doesn't seem like 
OO decomposition would have any value whatsoever.

People need to be more pragmatic about this. Programming 
paradigms are just tools. They should not be used as the basis 
for conducting idealogical warfare against each other ;-)