September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 20m
English
Content preview from Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
5OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
As we will see, the basis of a good architecture is the understanding and application of the principles of object-oriented design (OO). But just what is OO?
One answer to this question is “The combination of data and function.” Although often cited, this is a very unsatisfying answer because it implies that o.f() is somehow different from f(o). This is absurd. Programmers were passing data structures into functions long before 1966, when Dahl and Nygaard moved the function call stack frame to the heap and invented OO.
Another common answer to this question is “A way to model the real world.” This is an evasive answer ...