https://briar-patch.neocities.org/tags/oop/ Recent content in OOP on Briar Patch Hugo en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:46:51 -0700 https://briar-patch.neocities.org/posts/death_design_patterns/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:46:51 -0700 https://briar-patch.neocities.org/posts/death_design_patterns/ <p>Every now and then, I see <em>Design Patterns</em> floated as a kind of next-step resource for programmers after they&rsquo;ve gotten comfortable with a language, typically an object-oriented (or at least object-aware) one. I don&rsquo;t particularly have a problem with OOP as a concept, though I agree with its critics that inheritance is overused in teaching materials by several orders of magnitude.</p> <p>But as for <em>Design Patterns</em> itself, I personally think these days that it only serves as a window into 90s programming philosophy - a historical relic of a bygone age, and one that I&rsquo;m not all that interested in revisiting (unlike my passion for <em>Software Tools</em> from the 70s).</p>