Going overboard with nouns

by John on March 15, 2008

I ran across an article by Steve Yegge called Execution in the Kindom of Nouns that explains what can happen when object oriented programming goes bad.

In programming, objects are like nouns and functions are like verbs. You can go off into the weeds by placing too much emphasis on nouns, and Yegge makes a good case that Java has done just that.

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