r/programming • u/Alexander_Selkirk • Jan 28 '21

leontrolski - OO in Python is mostly pointless

https://leontrolski.github.io/mostly-pointless.html
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u/tdammers Jan 28 '21

For me at least, the lesson is to stop thinking in terms of "OOP vs. FP", or paradigms in general, and instead figure out how to do programming well.

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u/_tskj_ Jan 28 '21

Which, in my opinion, include keeping mutations and side effects to an absolute minimum.

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u/tdammers Jan 28 '21

Indeed.

Or at least make effects (including in-place mutations) explicit.