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2019 is the year we stop writing “pure” functional or object-oriented code, and go back to getting shit done.
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Any project of significant size, no matter what programming language it’s written in, will have places where OO techniques make sense & places where functional techniques make sense.
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It’s ok to have classes with no data of their own and a single method called “run.”
It’s ok to have functions that own data & mutate it.
Breathe! And get shit done.
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THIS. I almost always start with a list of instructions anyway, even if I'm intending to end up with classes or functions. A procedure is always easier to understand than a set of abstractions decided too early.https://twitter.com/TheAlanSmith/status/1083783166043803648 …
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I mean I totally agree, so I'm not throwing shade here, but what year was it when we actually wrote pure functional code? I'm over here counting it as a win that I've got my team accepting basic lambdas in Java.
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some time you should see the javascript codebases I've been working in
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I can only imagine. Honestly my FP zealot tendencies came from the drop in big rates I had with it. But that’s statically typed Haskell-ish FP. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that’s not exactly what you’re seeing.
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s/big/bug/
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Word! I also subscribe to the thought that sometimes what a job needs is a long but easy to read and procedurally written function.
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I used to agree with what both of you have said, until I revisited my "get shit done" code and my "clean code" a year later to add an update. The dirty code took almost a week to update while the clean was a matter of hours. Long term, its better to write clean.
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ocaml is a thing right? functional language with objects? :)
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then document what you did
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Literally staring at a 400-ish line WordPress plugin where someone has just gone totally nutty on OO "structure" (to the extent that PHP allows). It does look pretty on one level, but on another, it reads like a code obfuscation exercise.
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Shit can be done, regardless OO or functions, but what you states is to break some best practice on that road too. I can agree with that. That is not ok with shitty code and functions like that. Think! And get shit done!
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