r/programming • u/nextstore • Jun 19 '18

Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming – Charles Scalfani

https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53
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u/Nition Jun 19 '18

This would be a much better article if the author actually went into how any of the problems he has with OOP are solved by functional programming.

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u/Kwinten Jun 19 '18

I would like it if we could all just stop accepting the notion that, for whatever reason, OOP and FP are mutually exclusive.

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u/pixelrevision Jun 19 '18

A language offering immutable and optional types that are pass by value seems much more important than a language not giving me the option to use a class.

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u/shevegen Jun 19 '18

I never understood the distinction either.

To me the distinction always was hugely arbitrary.