Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ...
by kaoD on Monday December 19, 2016 @04:31PM
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You're nitpicking. GP said:
> If objects are mutable then the order of execution matters, and you have to trust the programmer to get the data flow and control flow to agree
My point is that, even in FP, as soon as you hit sequential operations (in your example, side effects), you're still bound by the execution order and the programmer getting it right (and how that is completely orthogonal to OOP or FP).
Order-dependent sequential operations are the programmer's responsibility regardless of paradigm.
I don't think OOP is inherently sequential. Your post made me realize GP is conflating OOP and imperative programming and his post makes sense if :%s/oop/imperative programming/.
> If objects are mutable then the order of execution matters, and you have to trust the programmer to get the data flow and control flow to agree
My point is that, even in FP, as soon as you hit sequential operations (in your example, side effects), you're still bound by the execution order and the programmer getting it right (and how that is completely orthogonal to OOP or FP).
Order-dependent sequential operations are the programmer's responsibility regardless of paradigm.
I don't think OOP is inherently sequential. Your post made me realize GP is conflating OOP and imperative programming and his post makes sense if :%s/oop/imperative programming/.