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Against mainstream.

Not really.

I don't get it.

People that think "OO is the answer to everything" get what they deserve. "OO" isn't the issue. Using it poorly, or inappropriately, just like *anything else*, is the issue.

I'm sorry for you but I think you decided wrong about your career; OO is not the silver bullet and for sure you lost your 6000$ as it is obvious you didn't understand it as I'm sure it is the case with procedural or any other kind of programming paradigm you would try. Being an expert programmer requires as most important skill the capacity to identify right the problem context and apply the right paradigm/solution. Complaining about what was sold to you as OO miracle tool shows the lack of fundamental skill for being more than a forever intermediate programmer - being pragmatic, critical and measuring twice before cutting so that you do it right first time - and not the incapacity to deliver of the OO paradigm. Usually in all my projects I do for more than 10 years there is a mixture of OO, procedural and yes, simulated functional paradigms - if Java or C/C++ are the language platform core - each one applied to that sub-system where _It_Makes_Sense_ ! I seen too many so called programmers in the last years complaining about the same family of issues as you do and what I noticed is that in fact these people have done a wrong career and professional choice - dealing with computer code is more that getting a very good pay check thinking that programming is learned reading hello world samples on the net or in the books. It is much more than that - it is native, born, educated, trained continuously skill-set, so if you miss it you miss it for ever ...

Just go for AspectJ then ;-)

I don't think he's gonna get it LOL ... and of course he's gonna blame AspectJ :-) ...

Should be an argument against Cold Fusion, not OO.. This guy doesn't make that obvious connection.

i agree with crisitian. Should have chosen a different career. Just another one of the many who learned one way to program and can't learn another.

I read through the posts. I am shocked that so many people still use CF and that they still have a conference. I guess I just don't develop the type of webapps/websites they do. Of course, i always say that i don't develop webapps.