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    "encapsulation has never demonstrated absolute success". I would have thought that everyone would agree that lack of encapsulation has caused a lot of trouble. Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 11:10
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    -1. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Celebrating the ability to change private variables shows a serious flaw in your coding style. Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 15:19
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    Apart from being debatable and probably wrong, this posting is also quite arrogant and insulting. Nicely done. Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 20:46
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    There are two schools of thoughts whose proponents don't seem to get along well. The static typing folk want it to be easy to reason about the software, the dynamic folk want it to be easy to add functionality. Which one is better basically depends on the expected life length of the project. Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 9:17