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Re:The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated by api on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:09PM (#24011650)
That's a good way to put it. I've thought of it as "FP is good if you can think of your program as a single possibly recursive data transform, even if it's a very elaborate one."

AFAIK it is theoretically possible to model any program that way, but it's only convenient for some problems.

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Re:The Case Against OOP Is Wildly Overstated by dnautics on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:39PM (#24024106)
That's really not true for most working fp-languages. For example Julia has support for fully mutable datastructures, which, you might expect for a language designed for high performance scientific computation first.

In my experience (20 years of OO programming and 5 of fp)... Almost all programs are better modeled as data transformations (recursive or otherwise). One time I did come across a data structure where this did not work, but I was not convinced that the layout of the data structure itself was wisely designed (it was tied to a legacy Django ORM layout).

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