Hacker News with Generative AI: Object-Oriented Programming

Alan Kay did not invent objects (2019) (hillelwayne.com)
People keep claiming that modern OOP languages aren’t “really OOP” because they don’t follow Alan Kay’s definition of “OOP”. I can see the logic here, even if I disagree the conclusion. More recently I’ve seen people start claiming that Kay invented objects entirely. This is factually incorrect.
Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Languages
24 points by iamwil 16 days ago | 29 comments
CORBA: Catching The Next Wave (1997) (archive.org)
Distributed objects are the next wave in Internet innovation. CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture defined by the Object Management Group (OMG), specifies how software objects distributed over a network can work together without regard to client and server operating systems and programming languages.
Distributed Computing, Object-Oriented Programming, Internet, Software Architecture
19 points by Lammy 19 days ago | 5 comments
Stop Writing If-Else Trees: Use the State Pattern Instead (medium.com)
The State design pattern is a behavioral software pattern that allows an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes. In simpler terms, the State pattern lets an object behave differently based on its current state, without cluttering the code with endless if/else or switch statements.
Programming, Object-Oriented Programming
6 points by atomlib 29 days ago | 5 comments
Stop Writing `__init__` Methods (glyph.im)
YEARS OF DATACLASSES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for overriding special methods just so you can have some attributes.
Python, Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Development
6 points by rbanffy 31 days ago | 0 comments
UML diagram for the DDD example in Evans' book (github.com/takaakit)
This project uses UML diagrams to illustrate the structure and behavior of the DDD example—a cargo shipping system—from Eric Evans' book (Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software). These diagrams are created based on the source code of the dddsample-core project on GitHub. The diagrams aim to help us understand how the example implements the strategic and tactical designs of DDD and the mechanisms by which it operates.
Domain-Driven Design, Software Development, UML, GitHub, Object-Oriented Programming
121 points by takaakit 35 days ago | 75 comments
Loglan'82: programming language for object-oriented and distributed programming (uksw.edu.pl)
Loglan'82 is a programming language conceived for object and distributed programming.
Programming Languages, Object-Oriented Programming, Distributed Computing
60 points by danielam 35 days ago | 9 comments
Using Python's .__dict__ to Work with Attributes – Real Python (realpython.com)
Python’s .__dict__ is a special attribute in classes and instances that acts as a namespace, mapping attribute names to their corresponding values. You can use .__dict__ to inspect, modify, add, or delete attributes dynamically, which makes it a versatile tool for metaprogramming and debugging.
Python, Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Metaprogramming, Debugging
3 points by rbanffy 38 days ago | 0 comments
Method dispatch mechanisms in Swift: static and dynamic dispatch (nilcoalescing.com)
Method dispatch refers to the process of determining which method implementation to execute when a method is called. In Swift, this can be either dynamic or static, each with distinct implications for performance and flexibility.
Programming, Swift, Performance, Object-Oriented Programming, Language Design
5 points by ingve 56 days ago | 0 comments
The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegation (2012) (saturnflyer.com)
The Gang of Four got it wrong. Ruby's standard library has it wrong. Rails has it wrong.
Programming, Software Design, Ruby, Object-Oriented Programming
28 points by Tomte 58 days ago | 54 comments
How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way (ghinda.com)
When writing Ruby OOP, a typical pattern might be to create an object to group multiple values together meaningfully and sometimes also add some extra methods (computed properties, predicates, representations, …) to allow the object to respond to various situations.
Ruby, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Development
59 points by thinkingemote 63 days ago | 2 comments
How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way (ghinda.com)
When writing Ruby OOP, a typical pattern might be to create an object to group multiple values together meaningfully and sometimes also add some extra methods (computed properties, predicates, representations, …) to allow the object to respond to various situations.
Ruby, Object-Oriented Programming, Value Objects
42 points by unripe_syntax 64 days ago | 18 comments
Show HN: Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C (github.com/shichao-an)
Sources for "Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C" (rerelease 02-01-04 and 14-01-03) Copyright (c) 1993 Axel T. Schreiner, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Programming Languages, Object-Oriented Programming, C, Open Source
3 points by swatson741 72 days ago | 0 comments
Rust Trait Object Layout (neugierig.org)
Rust makes a distinction between values and references that you generally learn to work with while using the language. This week I learned an interesting new corner around how that distinction applies to trait objects, despite using the language for quite a long time. Maybe it will surprise you too!
Rust, Programming Languages, Software Development, Object-Oriented Programming
11 points by ingve 72 days ago | 0 comments
Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful (wolfgang-ziegler.com)
Many developers (like myself) who started their careers with OOP (Java, C#, ...) during the last decades will look at this code and find nothing wrong about it at first sight.
Software Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns
42 points by gm678 96 days ago | 86 comments
Inheritance and Subtyping (frankel.ch)
Java is the first language I learned in my career. Its structure is foundational in my early years of understanding programming concepts. After going through several other languages with very different approaches, I’ve widened my point of view. Today, I want to reflect on the idea of inheritance.
Programming, Java, Object-Oriented Programming
43 points by saikatsg 114 days ago | 49 comments
Better Know a Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes (noelrappin.com)
It is time to Better Know what is perhaps the Ruby-iest of Ruby things, a feature that didn’t even have an official name for several years, despite being critical to Ruby’s Object-Oriented semantics. (It only just now occurs to me that there was no official name in English, I wonder what the Japanese name for it was…).
Ruby, Programming Languages, Object-Oriented Programming
130 points by mooreds 116 days ago | 25 comments
Enigma Cipher Machine: An Object Oriented Python Implementation (christopherchmielewski.xyz)
This program is an objected oriented implementation of the Enigma cipher machine written in Python.
Cryptography, Python, Object-Oriented Programming
13 points by horeszko 119 days ago | 0 comments
Open Dylan (opendylan.org)
Dylan is an object-functional language originally created by Apple for the Newton.
Programming Languages, Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming
60 points by ofrzeta 124 days ago | 24 comments
Pharo (pharo.org)
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback (think IDE and OS rolled into one).
Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Software Development, IDEs
51 points by TheFreim 131 days ago | 11 comments
Thinking in Actors – Part 3 – Using the Actor Model to Track Aircraft (jeremycarterau.substack.com)
Previously we outlined the three pillars of the virtual actor: Ownership, Lifecycle and Transaction. I also briefly introduced a few techniques we can use to help us model our actors. Now, we will put it all together and model a system that allows us to track aircraft in real-time.
Software Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Real-Time Systems, Aviation
8 points by thunderbong 141 days ago | 1 comments
Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile (2022) (dthompson.us)
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming.
Programming Languages, Scheme, Object-Oriented Programming
59 points by BoingBoomTschak 146 days ago | 4 comments
Implementing a simple object system from scratch in Ruby (metacircu1ar.github.io)
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” – Richard Feynman
Ruby, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Languages, Software Development, Computer Science
23 points by metacircu1ar 161 days ago | 9 comments
Exploring PHP Lazy Objects: A Practical Implementation (dailyrefactor.com)
One of the new features in PHP 8.4 is Lazy Objects, which are part of the PHP OOP model.
PHP, Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, New Features
14 points by esher 172 days ago | 1 comments
A C++ Mixin System (jennyjams.net)
I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while of pervasively using mixins to add code and logic for more high level concepts, although this gets somewhat close to Rust style traits (and C++ concepts). This has existed in the back of my head for a long time as a way to model a framework or standard library implementaiton while also providing it for user types.
C++, Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, Software Design
74 points by luu 185 days ago | 40 comments
99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python (sandimetz.com)
99 Bottles of OOP is a practical guide to writing cost-effective, maintainable, and pleasing object-oriented code.
Python, Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Books
254 points by mattcollins 189 days ago | 86 comments
OOP is not that bad (osa1.net)
OOP is certainly not my favorite paradigm, but I think mainstream statically-typed OOP does a few things right that are very important for programming with many people, over long periods of time.
Object-Oriented Programming, Programming Paradigms, Software Engineering
143 points by thunderbong 214 days ago | 288 comments
Beyond Procedure Calls as Component Glue: Connectors Deserve Metaclass Status (dl.acm.org)
We present the architecture-oriented programming language Objective-S, which goes beyond procedure calls for expressing inter-component connectors (so-called glue code) in order to directly express a wide range of architectural patterns directly in the implementation.
Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Architecture, Object-Oriented Programming
36 points by mpweiher 217 days ago | 23 comments
Medley Loops: The Basic System (Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System) [pdf] (interlisp.org)
Programming Languages, Lisp, Object-Oriented Programming
96 points by pamoroso 219 days ago | 28 comments
Alan Kay 80s 2h 40M OOP Talk Remastered [video] (youtube.com)
Object-Oriented Programming, Computer Science, History, Video, Alan Kay
11 points by TZubiri 228 days ago | 0 comments
Benchmarking the CLOS (djhaskin.com)
Programming, Benchmarking, Object-Oriented Programming, Lisp
10 points by djha-skin 247 days ago | 1 comments