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Discussion on: OOP a software development mass psychosis

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Thorsten Hirsch

Thomas, it looks like your recommendation of programming languages is based on the lack of OOP rather than the functional features. Would you recommend against mixing both paradigms? I actually don't see a problem in it as long as one keeps the OOP very lightweight.

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Thomas Hansen

I guess I'm just trying to balance the debate here. I'm not "against" OO, I just believe one should be a bit cautious with it. The principles of SOLID, DDD and (overusing) design patterns, rapidly results in a code base nightmare, impossible to navigate or maintain ...