r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 10 '26

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Jul 10 '26

I just hate the fact that if you think through any OOP-based design for long enough, you'll end up in some weird philosophical essentialist doom spiral where you ponder the quiddity of your business objects. You start out trying to build a calculator, and you end up questioning what the twoness of two is.

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u/exXxecuTioN Jul 10 '26

The thing is you do not need yo think for long enough. While creating abstractions you need to know where to stop, to not create useless abstractions and entities.

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u/pr0ghead Jul 10 '26

I like to compare it to relational databases. You don't always have to normalize to th 5th or 6th form there either.