On Pseudo Object-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful

摘要

The transition from one programming style to another is often a very difficult one. After reading, which claims that the proposal in of adapting the original procedural version of the "Hello, world" program into an object-oriented version is harmful, we are inspired to make at least three remarks: that there is a need among educators to address ways to differentiate between OO programming and OO programming languages; that confusion about the fundamentals of OOP is still prevalent among educators, and this confusion is being instituted by current textbooks; and that educators should exert more influence on the quality of textbooks. Here, we address some of the issues raised by [7] and [8]; to preserve the context, we reproduce the sample code used in and consid-ered harmful by [7] in the figure appearing here.