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		lukifer on Dec 19, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Data-Oriented Design (Why You Might Be Shooting Yo... I've always thought OOP was an overused pattern. If you don't need inheritance or information hiding, what does OO give you that can't be accomplished more easily with functions and arrays/hashtables?

xtho on Dec 19, 2009 [–]

Whether inheritance is an essential quality of OOP is IMHO debatable. This leaves us with data abstraction and polymorphism.

eru on Dec 19, 2009 | [–]

And Haskell solves those two problems pretty nicely without OOP.

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