A major advantage of an clean OO approach is that it forcese one to analyse a problem clearly and impose appropriate structure on the solution.

While working on a problem it happens very often that the OO approach "suggests" itself. Code tends to get messy if it's more than a page or two, and while restructuring it to bring some order, usually one notices ways to bring it to a higher level of abstraction, often in terms of classes and objects.

After all, for most real world problems we are actually dealing with objects that have properties, that we can do things to or that can do stuff themselves. In a sense it is only natural to model that real world in terms of the objects it consists of.

Of course, as has been mentioned, OO is not the answer to every problem, but very often it offers a clean, nice and abstract formulation of a solution, intellectually and estetically satisfying.

Just my 2 cents, -gjb-

In reply to Re: Make Perl an OO language by gjb
in thread Make Perl an OO language by gildir

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