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		kyledrake on July 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks "Reason 2 - It was thought to make code reuse easier. I see no evidence of 1 and 2." https://rubygems.org/stats

astrange on July 16, 2012 [–]

Code reuse works at the library level, not the individual object level. You're not exactly fishing an object out of a worldwide sea of classes there.

Actually, immutability can code reuse pretty easy, but many OO systems make no effort to encourage that (one reason Python is not my favorite language).

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