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Encapsulating vs Hiding

A short while ago I posted this rant about a incompetent programmers and a good friend posted the following comment: You say OOP is about hiding mutable state. Isn’t it about encapsulating mutable state? Maybe it’s just a matter of wording – but “hidden”, in my dictionary, means that it’s totally out of reach. Encapsulated [...]

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The GIP (Guild of Incompetent Programmers)

The Guild of Incompetent Programmers (GIP) is a group of programmers who are doing it wrong. Even though the GIP as a name, entity or organization is not very well known, most people have encountered one of its members or at least work produced by one of its members. There are a lot of sister [...]

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