# What do you think about Data-Oriented Programming?

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**Category:** General Dev Chat\
**Tags:** elixir, data-oriented-programming, dop\
**Created:** [24 February 2021 23:55 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-data-oriented-programming/7356 "2021-02-24T23:55:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/davearonson/32/591_2.png) [@davearonson](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/davearonson)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2021 01:07 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-data-oriented-programming/7356/4 "2021-02-25T01:07:17Z")

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Haven’t read the book, but from the blurbs, the concept seems to be basically “screw all this extra over-engineered nonsense that the so-called ‘OO’ gurus have saddled us with, let’s just go back to good encapsulation with simpler mechanisms”… like I learned in school before OO was hot, before C++ was invented. 🙂

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