OOP vs Procedural

[zeroradius]

I do procedreal and than use includes so that I can reuse the procedral code. I never took the time to learn OOP and procedral works just fine for me so I will stick with that until i get a job and they fource me into OOP

[WingedPanther]

Why is it that people assume OOP = reusable, but procedural = forced recode?

[John]

I dunno. C libraries worked fine for years.

[PythonPower]

Why is it that people assume OOP = reusable, but procedural = forced recode?

OOP is imperative programming with tools for extension. Inheritance let's one define new classes that have all the old properties and methods, with new ones. Polymorphism lets one act on objects without knowledge of their type. Et cetera...

Procedural programming can do all of the above without much effort but often things are coded in a way that they can't be used trivially again, in another program.

If anything, OOP is more a way of thinking about things.

[Angelena]

Hey,
to be very honest, i prefer Oop.

[zeroradius]

Procedural programming can do all of the above without much effort but often things are coded in a way that they can't be used trivially again, in another program.

Depends on the programmer who wrote the code. I do all my code so that all you have to do is change the page that it posts to , to the new page that is including the module.

[cdg10620]

Why is it that people assume OOP = reusable, but procedural = forced recode?

I did not mean to imply that procedural means that you have to reuse code. It's just that OOP makes code reuse much simpler.

[smith]

OOP. Procedural code leads to spaghetti code no matter how you slice it.

[PythonPower]

Procedural code leads to spaghetti code no matter how you slice it.

Can you expand on that assertion, please?

In fact, you can't. Since many purely procedural languages have only structured constructs (no gotos, jumps, exceptions, threads, etc...) and they are Turing-complete. Being Turing-complete guarantees that they can construct an interpreter for any other Turing-complete language - even OOP languages.

OOP is all about reuse - it doesn't change structure much.

[smith]

I should probably reword my statement: "When I write in procedural code it turns into spaghetti code, no matter how I slice it".