[vouwfietsman]

> Whether it was made for that is immaterial

This is in the talk, he explicitly says that its often brought up that "OOP is made for large teams" "you're not using it as intended" "its not made to model your domain hierarchy" etc etc. The first 30 minutes is his reaction to that, disproving it.

Whether thats true or interesting is a different question, but its explicitly stated in the video, at the start, before he goes into the history.

[igouy]

> "OOP is made for large teams" "you're not using it as intended" "its not made to model your domain hierarchy"

Are there actual references for those quotes? Were they said by some kind-of expert or by a sales person or by cousin John?

Are they strawmen set-up to knock-down.

[bevyenjoyer]

I highlighted "OOP is made for large teams", right clicked, clicked "Search Google for ..." and found the answer almost immediately. Give it a shot!

[igouy]

1) 'AI Overview "No, it's not strictly true that Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is exclusively made for large teams, but it does offer significant advantages in such environments."'

2) 'Casey Muratori -- The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five'

Still no reliable reference.

[db48x]

You’ll get better results if you just search for “OOP large teams” rather than the specific phrase used in the video. You’ll get results like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#Po... that point to specific references such as https://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html which says:

    Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because
    it suits the way they write software. At big companies, software
    tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of
    mediocre programmers. Object-oriented programming imposes a
    discipline on these programmers that prevents any one of them from
    doing too much damage.

[Jtsummers]

He spends the first half of his presentation debunking the meme that OO was created for working with teams, not that it happens to be good for working with teams. Your quoted bit is not evidence of someone making the first claim, only the second.

[igouy]

> You’ll get better results if you just search for

That isn't what @bevyenjoyer told me to do. Moving goal posts.

That's why it's important for the OP to provide a reference, so from the beginning we are all talking about the same thing.

[db48x]

This is not moving the goal posts. Different people making the same claim may use different phrasing, and Google very much has recency bias. By searching for something slightly different we deprioritize the video we’ve already seen.

[Greduan]

Oh if only you watched the presentation, where he quotes Bjarne Stroustrup and Alan Kay xD

[igouy]

Here's one of the Alan Kay quotes —

"Unfortunately, inheritance — though an incredibly powerful technique — has turned out to be very difficult for novices (and even professionals) to deal with." Alan Kay, The Early History of Smalltalk, page 82

That's taken from a section which reflects on introducing programming to children in the summer of '73 —

In part, what we were seeing was the "hacker phenomenon", that for any given pursuit, a particular 5% of the population will jump into it naturally, while the 80% or so who can learn it in time do not find it natural.

… it is likely that this area is more like writing than we wanted it to be. Namely, for the "80%", it really has to be learned gradually over a period of years in order to build up the structures that need to be there for design and solution look-ahead.

    -

Here's how that Alan Kay quote is used in The Big OOPs —

13:47 -- It's because 10 years earlier, he was already saying he kind of soured on it. He's like, inheritance was like really powerful, but people just didn't know how to use it. Novices and experts apparently both couldn't use it, right. It was just uh you know, it's really good, but no one can figure out how to use it, I guess. Uh so that's a little bit weird.

   -

Not "kind-of-soured on it" one page later —

There were a variety of strong desires for a real inheritance mechanism from Adele and me, from Larry Tesler, who was working on desktop publishing, and from the grad students. page 83

   -

Not "kind-of-soured on it" but wanting a "comprehensive and clean multiple inheritance scheme" —

A word about inheritance. … By the time Smalltalk-76 came along, Dan Ingalls had come up with a scheme that was Simula-like in it's semantics but could be incrementally changed on the fly to be in accord with our goals of close interaction. I was not completely thrilled with it because it seemed that we needed a better theory about inheritance entirely (and still do). … But no comprehensive and clean multiple inheritance scheme appeared that was compelling enough to surmount Dan's original Simula-like design. page 84

[igouy]

Oh if only you watched you could share.

[db48x]

Seriously? Just open any trade rag from the last 40 or 50 years.

[igouy]

So it was a sales pitch? And we would have blindly believed the sales pitch because …?

(I asked for actual references for those quotes so we don't waste time with moving goal posts.)