2006-04-20

 

OOP and other things now and then

Approximate conversation at work the other day:
Yeah, I split this into separate files, removed this and made these classes to make it actually work.
Ok, but don't go too fancy with objects here.
Sure! I think it's the only place where I actually use inheritance!
Heh. I'd imagine how that would have looked back some 5 years ago. "What design patterns did you use here?" etc. Funny how things change.

I think I've got it by now - took me way too much time for such a trivial thing - there is no silver bullet. OOP or any other buzzword is just a means to do something; sometimes it fits, sometimes it does not. Regarding OOP, I highly recommend Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns essay - it's way exaggerated, but has the point. The best part:
advocating Object-Oriented Programming is like advocating Pants-Oriented Clothing
There is one thing about the codebase that we have at work that I love: it does not use any particular design/programming technique. A bit of OO, a bit of metaprogramming, a bit of plain C style, a bit of preprocessor macros, etc. I like to think that we're using the best of those worlds, of course :)

# posted by NeARAZ @ 12:49
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There was a quote in a book or some paper, something like this:

good programers know when to apply OO design, better programmers know when to reject it.



Maverick
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 22:03  
i would say, that truly amazing thing here, is no matter how you write your code - in the end code is only 20% of your success (almost citing one book on TDD)
# posted by Blogger ReJ : 01:36  
Yeah, that's true. But that only confirms that how you write the code does not really matter. So just do it in the simplest way possible! :)
# posted by Blogger NeARAZ : 07:44  
define 'simple' ;)
# posted by Blogger ReJ : 14:07  
#define simple
# posted by Blogger NeARAZ : 15:27  
By the way, there is a difference between simple and simplest way possible. Of course you always end up with complex stuff, but you can at least choose between complexity and complexity on steroids :)
# posted by Blogger NeARAZ : 15:28  
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