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DannoHung on Feb 10, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why OO Sucks

I think it's more that OO was created because lots of programmers couldn't be bothered to exert discipline in observing APIs, so discipline was forced upon them.

jmtulloss on Feb 11, 2009 [–]

I'm not sure what you mean here. How does OO force APIs on a user more than any other programming style? If you don't follow an API, your code won't work whether it's OO or not.

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