Elegant Objects

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• cessor · Dec 21, 2019 · Recommends

  …will convey to you that this style is wrong, classes and objects are " too expensive", primitive values are fine, and that this is too verbose.* I learned about this style from Yegor Bugayenko's Book "Elegant Objects", go check it out. https://www.elegantobjects.org/ *) Yes, Java is verbose; not trying to defend that. I am very happy about keyword arguments in Python, for example. But, as soon as you have classes,…

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• cessor · Dec 8, 2017 · Recommends

  My highlight was Yegor Bugayenko's "Elegant Objects". Volume 2 was released this year (however I found the first Volume (2016) much better). Yegor describes what went wrong with object-oriented programming. Whether you are stuck with Java or broaden your…

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• cessor · Jun 5, 2017 · Recommends

  …I found them more helpful than the Red Dragon Book. The latter is good, but as a beginner I felt a little lost and Terence Parr's book was much more helpful. Practice & Karate ================= - "Elegant Objects" by Yegor Bugayenko - "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" - Michael Feathers - "Growing OO Software, Guided by tests" - Pryce, Freeman - "Test Driven Development" by Kent Beck And, this last one…

  on “Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read?” ↗
• leonj1 · Dec 23, 2016 · Recommends

  Recommended: Idea Flow, Enduring CSS, Beautiful Java, Elegant Objects, Apache Solr a practical approach, GSON (LeanPub)

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• croo · Sep 14, 2018 · Mentions

  To add another perspective to the discussion, Yegor Bugayenko (author of the Elegant Objects books) says that splitting data and data manipulating objects are "pure evil" because when you do it that way it is going against OOP as you will get functions and data to operate on. Which is exactly…

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• cessor · May 28, 2020 · Mentions

  …need to force every peg into a coalgebra hole. True, but how awesome would it be if I did that anyway :D Regarding `max` and `pow` as objects: Yegor Bugayenko argues for a similar thing in his book "Elegant Objects".

  on “The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions” ↗
• rosenjcb · Feb 10, 2022 · Mentions

  Elegant Objects by Yegor Bugayenko actually argues against mutation in OOP for the same reasons that FP advocates due (bad for concurrency, hard to test, hidden state is hard to keep in your head, et cetera), but then…

  on “Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2020)” ↗
• vips7L · Aug 20, 2024 · Mentions

  That wouldn’t be object oriented. In OO you tend to want to ask an object about itself, Yegor talks a bit about this in his book Elegant Objects. What you are proposing is just functions or data-oriented programming; which is fine if that’s your thing, but I’d be weary because of the reasons you outline above. Can a book be an adult? What about…

  on “Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring” ↗