I've certainly learned a lot from the game programmer crowd, and I often find myself agreeing with the anti-OO sentiment these days, but why do they have to be so freaking smug about their favorite techniques? I don't see this kind of sneering prose nearly as often in other programming domains. It pays to be nice, FFS!
I wholeheartedly agree with the contents of the article, but I have to hold my nose while reading it.
> why do they have to be so freaking smug about their favorite techniques?
Because they haven't yet spent 30 years watching those techniques being used successfully only to read that, in fact, they obviously don't work at all.
I wholeheartedly agree with the contents of the article, but I have to hold my nose while reading it.