Is Object-Oriented Programming Still Relevant?

Harper's needs for teaching an introductory CS curriculum class are very different from the needs of a real life project. His job is to teach fundamental concepts (e.g. modularity, parallelism, induction) to freshmen.

It is important for the language and paradigm chosen to express concepts with as little ceremony as possible because familiarity, tool support, available libraries, execution performance etc. are completely irrelevant in this context.

The view that objected oriented programming (OO) is anti-modular results from the large number of dependencies to other classes even objects of well designed classes tend to end up with.

<p>The proliferation of Dependency Injection frameworks, articles, books, and blog posts is considered a hint that OO's large number of dependencies is a problem, even in the eyes of proponents of OO.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The importance of Design Patterns and the complexity of implementing them in objected oriented programming (OO) is highlighted as compared to some other programming paradigms.</p> Signup and view all the answers