Code is procedurally oriented rather than object-oriented: objects are just constructs that emerge to let procedures be reused.

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• Object-oriented programming is how he sees the world, whatever the frontier says about functional programming. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson18 Sept 2024
• Code written to be reusable before there is anything reusing it is likely to be reusable in the wrong way. CMCasey Muratori28 May 2014
• Loops belong on codebase quality, not on shipping the features users want; we read all of the code, because program design is what decides whether a codebase stays changeable. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026
• Once objects are understood, it is clear that all software will eventually be written using them; the timing and the winners can be argued, the inevitability cannot. SJSteve Jobs1 Feb 1996
• Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about. RHRich Hickeyby 2 Jan 2018

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