Comment by mnm1

Great series. He really gets to the major problem with OOP. It's not at all obvious what should be modeled or how and changing things once they're wrong is close to impossible. No wonder so few beginners pick it up and do it well. In the last part, what he's describing reminds me of clojure. A language where both data and functions are first class citizens and where functions operating on data is the default paradigm. That's the huge difference I see: in a language oriented around data like clojure, the architecture he describes is almost obvious from the start to experienced programmers and it can be slowly built even if one starts on the wrong path. In OOP languages, there are so many wrong paths and the right path is almost never clear or obvious. Even when the right path is clear, getting there from the current state of the code might be impossible without starting over (think how one would get from an architecture based on his first examples to one based around rules without a rewrite). While the author defends his use of OOP, it's clear imo he's still using the wrong tool for the job. Why use an OOP language that makes data a second class citizen hidden in objects rather than a first class citizen that the language is designed around? As they say, show me your data structures and I will know your architecture. Show me your code/functions and I know nothing.