There are so many definitions of OOP out there, varying between different books, documentation and articles.

What really defines OOP?

  • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml
    472·
    10 months ago

    Instead of making one big mess, you make multiple smaller messes and stuff them into objects.

    • MajorHavoc
      256·
      10 months ago

      Yep. State is bad, so in OOP we take the huge ugly ball of unnecessary state, and we spread it across the program ecosystem as a thin ugly brittle venier of unnecessary state.

      • Hexarei
        14·
        10 months ago

        Let’s just not talk about the part where the computer is inherently stateful though 😉