[Gllug] Dealing with "Word-Only" organisations

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 10 Nov 2010, Walter Stanish wrote:
>Richard Jones:
>>It took me a year or two of OCaml to realize that everything I learned
>>about OO was wrong and an active hindrance to writing good,
>>maintainable code.  I now rarely use any OO technique.
>ANOTHER ONE!  This sentiment is echoed by many (but not all) of
>the veteran developers interviewed in Peter Seibel's book 'Coders at Work'.

Now I cannot claim to be a veteran developer. Far from it. But one
thing I am all too familiar with from the field of roguelike
development is the young fellow who just learned about OO in the last
few years and rushes in making everything a class whether it likes it
or not, because then writing a roguelike will be as easy as falling
off a log.

Generally at this point comedy ensues.

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