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peerreynders • Edited

Why bash OOP when you could have written an article about FP.

You said it yourself "attention". Look how many comments there already are.

It has no regard for anyone still using OOP and is simply a lie.

Lie is perhaps a strong word but it's a rather biased rehash of previously known limitations. Every paradigm has limitations and it's important to be aware of them and know how to deal with them. To some degree it plays on the one language theme—in a "one paradigm" way.

Otherwise just ignore it.

If for whatever reason I was tied to the C# ecosystem right now I'd be paying more attention to Mark Seeman (Code that fits in your Head)

He's a veteran in the OO space and is simply looking for better solutions to real problems.

(And beyond that Scott Wlaschin.)

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John Peters

I read Seeman over 25 years ago, he's nothing special. All OOP winds up functional. What? Yes SRP guarantees it. So all your noise shows you are unaware of that.

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peerreynders

After 25 years you should have stopped clinging to SRP by now.

It's a place to start ... not dogma.

With statements like that you are just feeding into the author's argument.

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Thomas Hansen

The "point" isn't "to win", the point is to find the best argument ...

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John Peters

Clinging is a word you picked. My word is working. The code style employed everyday I write it, works perfectly. More importantly it's maintainable even years later. Proof? Yes, I have code running world wide every day. I use SRP and Open Closed exclusively. As well as Compositional techniques. If it ain't broke don't fix it right?

BTW the video is ridiculous to me.