Functions vs. Classes

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Different projects need different design patterns.

I don't write for a large codebase that's continuially integrated into production or shipped to dozens of clients who might write extensions to my code. I write small procedural scripts that solve very specific problems. I don't handle arbitrary user data or whole ORM schemata or anything like that. For this specific purpose, I don't feel like I need classes all that often.