On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 22:27:58 UTC, sarn wrote:
In the 90s (and a bit into the 00s) there was a pretty extreme "everything must be an object; OO is the solution to everything" movement in the industry.
Yes, around 1991, the computer mags were all over C++ and the bookshelves in the programming section of book stores too…
Look around most programming languages today and you'll see objects, so in that sense OOP never failed. What failed was the hype train. It's no different from most other tech fads (except XML has declined drastically since the hype passed).
*nods* I recall Kristen Nygaard (driving force behind OO and Simula) being sceptical of some of the drive away from OO modelling and towards OO-everything in the mid 90s. However in Scandinavia I think the focus was predominantly on supporting modelling. OOP is a way to support the model. I never heard any of the people behind OO suggest anything more than that OO was one paradigm among many. Nygaard also believed that OO modelling would be useful outside programming, as a mode-of-thinking when doing analysis, for instance in government.
Of course there are plenty of pure OO languages that also are interesting in their own right: Smalltalk, Beta, gBeta, Self, and in online text games Moo. Javascript could have made it onto that list too, if it had been given a more suitable syntax and slightly different semantics.
