Stop Writing Classes

I think you're thinking of Jack Diederich's talk "Stop Writing Classes". You can (and should!) watch it online here: [VIDEO]

Stop writing classes - Jack Diederich - [VIDEO] Show them this. I'm still grateful for the moment I grew dissatisfied with OOP, or at least OOP in the Java/C# way. I was almost getting to an intermediate level in python (by myself) and had been thinking about a video game architecture problem I just couldn't solve. I was still "indoctrinated" in the gang-of-four patterns and inheritance. When I discovered the solution, Entity Component Architectures[1], I also discovered the "composition over inheritance" philosophy. My mind was blown! Coupled with some Python's characteristics (duck-typing, everything is public, first-class functions) I was having a blast. Then I saw the video above, and all fell into place. Class based OOP have specific uses, but It's a shame how heavily enforced the paradigm is. “Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” – John Carmack Now, for scripts or not-to-big programs in Python, I mainly use NamedTuples for passing data around and (mostly) pure functions. P.S. Another funny thing: At my job I use J2EE aka "lots of hinheritance and classes and boilerplate". Sometimes I just have to go home and write some code in python or lua to "cleanse my palate". It helps me get motivated for my personal projects. [1] [LINK]

Stop writing classes is one of my favorites. Also many pycon talks are great, or any talks by Brandon Rhodes. [VIDEO]

I also tend to avoid writing many classes (in Python). Jack Diederich has a great video called Stop Writing Classes: [VIDEO] It's about Python, but the observation can apply to several languages. Pithy quote: "I hate code and I want as little of it as possible in our product."

Hickey gives great talks, but I also really liked Jack Diederich's talk "stop writing classes" at PyCon 2012 [VIDEO]

I read this book: [LINK] While doing these labs: [LINK] Also a colleague made me watch this from Jack Diederich: [VIDEO]

Reminds me of this talk, "Stop Writing Classes": [VIDEO] Changed my perspective on this newfound tool I'd learned to use called "indirection". My favorite quote is something like "don't waste 10 minutes now to save yourself 2 minutes later".

Yes, the standard library has a lot of questionable design (some inspired by Java, some by C), and many programmers overuse classes. I'm a fan of (former core dev) Jack Diederich's talk, [VIDEO] .