Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

Proponents of object-oriented techniques point to the flexibility and extensibility of object-oriented systems along with other benefits such as increased modularity, abstraction, and encapsulation.

This Gang of Four (GoF), as they subsequently were known, went on to write the popular Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, which documents 23 design patterns in three ...

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To achieve a true encapsulation for concurrency, you need to go beyond a simple class and employ the so-called active class, also known as the active object design pattern. This pattern is a fusion of ...

In of this three-part series introducing design patterns, I referred to Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Design. This classic was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph ...