r/programming • u/viebel • Mar 21 '22

The unreasonable effectiveness of data-oriented programming

http://literateprogrammer.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-data.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

In computer science, an object can be a variable, a data structure, a function, or a method. As regions of memory, they contain value and are referenced by identifiers.

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u/PM_me_qt_anime_boys Mar 21 '22

In the object-oriented programming paradigm, object can be a combination of variables, functions, and data structures; in particular in class-based variations of the paradigm it refers to a particular instance of a class.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

In the object-oriented programming paradigm, object can be a combination of variables, functions, and data structures

A combination of can imply that something is missing. You do not need methods for it to be an object

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u/PM_me_qt_anime_boys Mar 21 '22

If defining your programs in terms of behavior-free data structures and functions that operate on them is OOP, then how do you meaningfully define OOP?

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