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DaveJ

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4. How about video games?
Wed Apr 2, 2014, 01:33 PM
Apr 2014

I'm very impressed by video games and the way they leverage OOP. Not to say that OOP is exclusive to games, but they are proof of how it's used on a routine bases. Like Grand Theft Auto V for instance, a gigantic expansive city in amazing detail, is something that could only have been accomplished with objects. With every revision their world becomes larger and more refined. If the project needs to be bigger, they just hire more programmers, and it just works. Otherwise I think hiring a bigger team would just be useless because each member would have to learn the sequential logic of the code.

Actually I find it extremely easier to create objects rather than trying to trace through SQL, or any other language, line by line. I did program procedurally for most my life and only began to get the hang of OOP recently. I certainly can't make other people gain an appreciation for it, or in some cases even try, and if nobody else does it then yeah it's kind of like you said wishful thinking.

Anyway I'm going to create a project now based on objects and if I'm the only one using it then fine.

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