@amon Thanks for the reply, those are some interesting points, I think it's interesting to hear those 4 as separate concepts instead of just lumped together

@Tom a SATA to USB bridge could work as well, plug it into another (Windows) computer and it's just like any other external drive, I tend to carry one of those in my backpack these days.

Alternatively if he's enabled file sharing there's some fine print that causes Windows to share your entire user folder by default, so all you have to do is type in the computer's ip address into windows explorer and you're in.

@amon Also in case you're interested, on the project I'm on, I felt that OOP as a design philosophy (i.e., treating real world things as objects) works OK sometimes; sometimes I found it very counter-intuitive (for me the dog example just seemed to introduce a lot of room for misinterpretation). As a design goal, I'm not ready to make a conclusion (I'm still reading)...

I've worked with some really nice procedural codebases, but the OOP-ish? codebases that I've seen didn't really seem all that uncoupled or modular (e.g., all of them had the gorilla/banana/jungle problem and some even worse problems) , I'm still sort of hoping to find either a really good OOP codebase that achieves those design goals as an example, or some kind of book that goes into enough detail for me to implement it on my own.

One more vote to delete.

@jrh In my experience, OOP is generally overdone. Either there's too much inheritance, or too much coupling, or just too much. Software problems tend to be solved by piling more software on top of the existing software... things like DI containers and ORM's. The GOF book is practically a study on how to pile more software on top of software to solve problems.

Advocates claim that you need all that ceremony to provide a "pattern language" and an architectural design that all of your developers can follow. Perhaps that's true. But that only works if you're all speaking the same pattern language. And it doesn't provide much room for innovation.

Thanks, I'll have to think that over for a bit, I didn't read the GoF yet but it's probably on my list somewhere; I have to take off for a bit.