Object-Oriented Programming is The Biggest Mistake of Computer Science

Elliot Suzdalnitski
17 min readJan 4, 2021

C++ and Java probably are some of the worst mistakes of computer science. Both have been heavily criticized by Alan Kay, the creator of OOP himself, and many other prominent computer scientists. Yet C++ and Java paved the way for the most notorious programming paradigm — the modern OOP.

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