OOPs

John D. Cook notes in Too many objects the condition of OOP gone mad:

For example, I had a discussion with a colleague once on how to represent depth in an oil well for software we were writing. I said “Let’s just use a number.”

double depth;

My suggestion was laughed off as hopelessly crude. We need to create depth objects! And not just C++ objects, COM objects! We couldn’t send a double out into the world without first wrapping it in the overhead of an object.