More Comments on the Anti-OO Article

Some quite vehement comments on Mansfield's DevX editorial, OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice, as you would expect from readers of theserverside.com.

Some quotes from the various folks who commented (I haven't included their names, but you can see these & all the rest by following the link to the postings):

This one easily takes the cake as Stupidest Article of 2005... so far. With just eleven months left, it will be tough to find something more misguided, based on even less actual knowledge and logical thinking.

I think anyone who’s worked at large company has run across this type of developer. They normally come from a COBOL background and find all those objects confusing. They definitely don’t see any problem with cut and pasting code.

Would've been a lovely article if it were posted in the 80s as part of the OOP war.

Whoehahahahaha what a joke. Just get it off, i wasted time reading this.

The author is a VB guy. Look at his books on Amazon: 2-star rated VB book. If you look at his other books, they are all VB-related.

I guess this fellow is just like a lot of old guys, they kept stucked in the past, geez look at this guy he was editor and jatti jatta blah blah blah, but at 80's. I know a lot of people in the industry have a lot of experience and all that, but the experience is nothing when you don't evolve with the industry.

This is such a 1970s attitude! Much of the original OOP development was done in Smalltalk in the 70s, and then they concentrated on using OOP for GUI code. This was a short-lived phase, as OOP soon researchers realised that object-orientation was a general technique that could be more widely applied. It pains me to see people stating ideas that are 30 years out of date!

what happens when an error occurs on the code which is copied and pasted at 10 different locations on the code-base ?? didn't author think about that ???

I don't think he is a real person.