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Game developers have been big on data oriented design (http://www.asawicki.info/news_1422_data-oriented_design_-_li...) in recent years. It's funny, because data-oriented design examples tend to look like the original ("bad"?) array of values example in the blog post. Most of articles on DOD focus on performance, which seems of least concern to most software engineers, but I think it helps with understanding how your data is transformed and results in easier to understand code.

I don't see how OOP is any more applicable to games than it is to other software. In a typical business or social CRUD app you can represent things in the same way you could in an OOP game. "Hero" becomes "User", "Monster" becomes "Friend", "Inventory" becomes "Account", etc.

Otherwise I strongly agree with you. I think all software should be written in a more functional or data-oriented style. The biggest reason I'd write OOP code now is that many game designers and programmers, and most popular game engines and frameworks, prefer OOP.

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