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On 11/22/24 19:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> Coding is always a balance between flexibility and clarity, there is 
>> no "right" answer. You can make code more flexible by adding another 
>> layer of indirection, but it becomes harder to understand.
>>
>>
> I echo that. The 'nogoto' was really a fool's rule. The wise man's 
> guidance was 'make it clear what you are doing because you  or someone 
> else - may need to understand it in a years time'
> I dpnt find OO in general makes code easier to understand.
> 

It's hard for me to understand reluctance to use OO. I learnt Smalltalk 
before I learnt C. I never did much development in C, mainly 
maintenance, but when I did it had an OO feel. When C++ came along I was 
very happy.

To me saying you don't like OO is a bit like saying you don't like 
structs. Yes, instead of a struct you could use a block of memory and 
offsets, but why would you want to when you have a struct.

I find it hard to imagine any other way of coding.