[ehaliewicz2]

I find simple loops over simple data more understandable than inheritance chains and pointer chasing.

[TillE]

If the stuff you're doing allows a design where you can just loop over POD, sure, that's the ideal.

But lots of stuff isn't that simple, and you end up messily reinventing inheritance with a lot of switches and if statements.

[morelisp]

Most of the time you can solve this by knowing shit and thinking harder.