Well, you make several good points, but as with anything good in life (sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, you name it), it is best when it is in moderation. OOP is just one of the paradigms you should be using in your code. Anyone who tells you different is usually a first year CS student who just finished thier first "Intro to Java" class and can be safely ignored. Also, first class functions != functional programming, there is a very long history of first class functions/blocks in OOP (see Smalltalk). FP is a much deeper mindset which goes beyond just "functions as data".

You should really look into some of the newer thinking around OO, and even some of the older, but less mainstream, thinking as well.

For instance, roles (and the original concept of Traits) goes a long way towards helping modular decompositon in OO not be so "entity" centric. You might be interested in this talk I just gave on Moose::Role at the Pittsburg Perl Workshop this weekend. Towards the end of the slides it gives a number of examples of how roles can provide features that that a class "does" where an "isa" relationship just wouldn't make any sense.

You should also look into some of the more multi-paradigm languages like Scala and OCaml, both of which provide an excellent hybrid of OO and functional paradigms.

And lastly, OOP != Java/C#/C++ there are some really nice OO systems out there in which modeling is not so "entity" centered. Take CLOS for instance, it uses generic functions and classes, so that behavior is very clearly seperated from state. There are many Scheme OO systems which expand on the CLOS concepts too. There is also prototype basesd OO, which also leads to very different modeling approaches.

However, I'm slightly worried about the approach taken in Perl 6 ...

Fear not, it might be OO under the hood, but this wont stop you from ignoring it's OO-ness as much as you want. And as for efficiency, let the compiler writers worry about that :)

-stvn

In reply to Re: I dislike object-oriented programming in general by stvn
in thread I dislike object-oriented programming in general by vrk

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