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Re:Classes are a way of writing higher order functions by munificent on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:31PM (#24423464)
OOP first boomed with C++ before Java came around, and Java got GC from function languages.

If GC was the distinguishing factor, OOP would have never gotten off the ground.

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Re:Classes are a way of writing higher order functions by pjmlp on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:46PM (#24423648)
Having been there when it all took off, it always feels so wrong to read "C++ code written Java style", when it was C++ that actually created that style.
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