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I could never find a reliable source for this oft-quoted remark about Object-Oriented Programming. As far as I know, Dijkstra never said this, not in this exact phrasing anyway.


Also, why would he say that when he knew, very well, that OOP was invented in Norway?

http://coldcomfortgames.com/blog/object-oriented-programming...

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Dijkstra-say-that-%E2%80%9CObj...

It seems no one is able to find the source of the quote, it's in fact much more likely he did not say anything like that, and that the quote is a fabrication.


What he did say : « I don’t think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance » (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E...)

I guess some decided that Dijkstra didn't have enough inflammatory quotes attached to his name and fabricated the other one.



That's not a reliable source, and it does not specify source of the quote.




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