Assessing the cognitive consequences of the object-oriented approach: a survey of empirical research on object-oriented design by individuals and teams · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0611154/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTAssessing the cognitive consequences of the object-oriented approach: a survey of empirical research on object-oriented design by individuals and teams — mentioned by chriswarbohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339858urn:hackerpapers:mention:cs_0611154:8339858Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:10:12 GMT<p>&gt; The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think. Citation needed. Browsing around Google Scholar for variations of &quot;object oriented empirical comparison&quot; shows a huge body of research comparing various OO approaches to each other, but very few comparing OO approaches to anything else. Those which I have been able to find compare OO to procedural code, and find either no significant difference in comprehension levels, or that procedural code is easier to understand (ie. closer to &quot;how humans think&quot;) than OO: An empirical study of novice program comprehension in…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0611154/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.HC