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What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions? (lemy.lol)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

What really defines OOP?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Exactly! ;)