[leblancfg]

Although he spends quite some time on exploring the alternatives, the only reason the author specifically states where classes are harmful is because they are premature optimization. That's it?

I guess "Classes considered a PITA" just didn't make a good title.

[lgas]

He delegates to his other paper with "A long discussion of the issues can be found in my submission to MASPEGHI 2013 [1]". That paper can be found here:

http://www.cs.jyu.fi/maspeghi2013/papers.html

specifically:

http://www.cs.jyu.fi/maspeghi2013/p17-black.pdf