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For those who only read above the fold: I don’t say that all object-orientation is bad! OOP, especially classical polymorphic OOP, has a well-deserved place in real code. I’m going to talk about a very specific antipattern that I see with some frequency: the use of class for things that should be simple free functions.

All he wanted to do was terrorize the country and thats what he did. if youre a policy maker, the first question you always ask yourself, what is your measure of success? when you look at the raids, you look at this, does it make the country safer? it does not. does it deter more migrants from coming to this country? it does not. does this fix the problem at the border? it does not. what douz it do? it creates terror, it creates chaos, thats what it does. >> paula, how do you look at this, given...