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Nuances of overloading and overriding in Java

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All programming philosophies are about state

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Code Design Decision – Always throw custom exceptions

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A Review of the Art of the Metaobject Protocol (2010) [pdf]

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Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)

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The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free functions (2020)

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Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)

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Why general inheritance is flawed and how to finally fix it

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Object-Oriented Programming in C (2019) [pdf]

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Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do

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Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)

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Basic Concepts in Unity for Software Engineers

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Why is OOP still so widely spread?

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The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated

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The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions

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The Liskov Substitution Principle (2019)

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Pretending OOP Never Happened

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Crafting Interpreters: Classes and Instances

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Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (1998)

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Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State

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Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb

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Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?

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Alan Kay and OO Programming

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The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software

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Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)

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OOP Is Dead, Long Live OOP

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Why not program right?

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Semantic Compression

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Message-Oriented Programming (2017)

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Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]

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Don't overuse interfaces

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I was wrong, reflecting on the .NET design choices

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Was object-oriented programming a failure? (2015)

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Classes Considered Harmful [pdf]

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Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998)

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Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story

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Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful

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Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

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Why composition is often better than inheritance

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FP vs. OO, from the trenches

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Message Oriented Programming

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OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing

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Go's unique approach to OO

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Game Development Essentials #1 - Don’t use inheritance for your game objects

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One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got

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OOP no longer mandatory in CMU Computer Science Curriculum

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OOP practiced backwards is "POO"

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Things to hate about OOP

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Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP

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Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf]

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Cyclomatic complexity

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What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?

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Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)

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