Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 13th Aug 2008 16:47 UTC, submitted by BlueVoodoo
General Development "Often it is difficult to make the transition from procedural scripting to object-oriented programming. This article explores how to reuse knowledge from PHP, Bash, or Python scripting to transition to object-oriented programming in Python. The article also briefly touches on the appropriate use of functional programming."
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Why would you?
by torbenm on Thu 14th Aug 2008 11:27 UTC
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I agree with simo, that there is no obvious need to go OO. IMO, the OO paradigm is oversold and the only places where it may have a teeny bit of merit is in very large software projects, and you would want a statically-typed language (i.e., not Python) for such projects.

And even for large projects, I think that functional programming is a lot better for structuring than OO.