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A comment on Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000).

Re:Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) by dang on Sunday April 21, 2019 @08:54PM (#19715564)
This doesn't contain his most famous line on the topic:

You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/19/you-wanted-banana/

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Re:Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) by freddie_mercury on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:12PM (#19715637)
Why would a post written before 2000 include a quote from an interview done in 2008?
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Re:Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) by dang on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:17PM (#19715658)
It wouldn't!
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Re:Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) by apoph3nia on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:21PM (#19716233)
> If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first.

...& if you don't want the stateful gorilla?

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