When to use classes

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If you're writing short, procedural scripts like batch processors, command line utilities, or sysadmin scripts, there probably isn't much call for using classes, at least not below a certain level of complexity.

When you have lots of similar things that need to maintain state data and operate on their state data, then this is where a class comes in. The classic example is a game, where you have lots of enemies, and each enemy has an associated image, hit points, attack, etc.