[gusmd]

The best gem in all of it is this:

> You can make classes, but you can only ever make one instance of them. This shouldn't affect how most object-oriented programmers work.

This describes my experience with most OOP code very well.

[layer8]

I think the best gem is the ability to delete paradigms.

As for OOP, a bit more realistic would have been to restrict interfaces to at most one implementation.

[osigurdson]

One real implementation and many implementations for testing that do whatever the consumer wants them to do.

[phendrenad2]

I've seen this called "bulldozer code". As in "Hey, all of those plain functions need to be OOP! Get a big earth moving machine and gently push them inside the curly braces of a class! Which class? Any class!"

[_the_inflator]

I love Singletons and God Classes. ;)

[keyle]

Factories and Managers. Don't forget Decorators!

[fnordpiglet]

https://factoryfactoryfactory.net

[arethuza]

The original comment from Joel on Software has been preserved with comments at:

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframeworks...

Note that one of the comments is from me :-)

[gkhartman]

First time reading this. Thanks for the laugh. Trigger warning for those who have worked on legacy Java/C# code.

[delusional]

I'd like the extend the Trigger warning to people still building Java apps because it's the same shit.

[fnordpiglet]

You really need a visitor pattern factory factory for trigger warnings.

[HeavyStorm]

This thread slice is making me feel really bad.

[BulgarianIdiot]

Sturgeon's Law: "90 of everything is crap".

It's no surprise that when you make virtually all mainstream programming languages OOP, then there will be a vast amount of bad OOP code out there (as by definition mainstream code then becomes "OOP code").

[underdeserver]

I like how you forget the % after 90.

DreamBerd probably allows this.

[spindle]

IIRC, numbers without a percentage sign are assumed to be percentages. Numbers that are not percentages have to be followed by ;% (the semicolon is the NOT operator in DreamBerd).

[ljm]

I think they actually meant that there are 90 crap OOP language implementations and the infinite quantity that remain are ‘not crap’

[taneq]

Maybe you can hoist % symbols like you can hoist variables.

If not, maybe you can hoist the ability to hoist % symbols, before which you can hoist % symbols.

[BulgarianIdiot]

Why waste time type lot char, when few char do trick

[scns]

Ouch, that is a harsh view. Black & white thinking leads to depression in people with a disposition. Questioning these thoughts helps.

I'm more inclined to follow the bell curve. 10% crap, 40% mediocre but rather bad, 40% mediocre but rather good and 10% great.

[avgcorrection]

> Black & white thinking leads to depression in people with a disposition.

That sounds interesting. Who has researched/written about that?