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[John]

I don't think we have one of these, and a forum cant be considered a programming forum without a lengthy discussion on the two types of coding styles.

So lets hear, in your opinion, which is better and why.

[Lop]

I think that OOP is better because you can reuse code, it is more legible and easier to coordinate among a group of developers. What about you, what do you like?

[John]

Honestly, it depends on what I need to do In my experience, OOP is considerably slower than procedural, so on small projects [ > 1000 lines ] I would use procedural, but when working on a large project with a group I will use OOP as it is easier to understand and use. Moreover using [good] OOP makes it much easier to implement design patterns which make managing everything a whole lot easier.

I've yet to make up my mind as to which I can stand firmly by as both have their setbacks, but as I become better at OOP I will probably become an OOP freak.

[v0id]

I can only agree with the two previous posts.

[WingedPanther]

I have yet to see OOP that didn't use procedural code to implement the individual functions. That said, I would say it depends on the problem. For some problems, OOP seems to correspond to how I think about the problem. For others, procedural is how I'm thinking. For example: A game tends to be more OOP, while a program to do statistical computations tends to be more procedural.