THE VIDEO SHELF · object-oriented programming critique
Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will critiques object-oriented programming and rewrites a roughly 3800-line OO program in a procedural style, cutting code and complexity. It is part of a series of OOP critiques.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a concrete, worked example of the case against heavy OOP rather than abstract argument.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Brian Will
- Topic
- object-oriented programming critique
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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For anyone unfamiliar, I recommend the whole series, but it also culminates in the presenter rewriting an entire nontrivial OOP program into a procedural one and saving whopping amounts of code/complexity. The big example helps to show this isn't just abstract rambling against OOP. [VIDEO]
codemonkey-zeta on Hacker News · 2022-06
In Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)There are three talks, actually. Here are the other two. Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples[0] Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example[1] [0]: [LINK] [1]: [VIDEO]
lj3 on Hacker News · 2016-12
In Talks that changed the way I think about programming
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