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Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by andrewflnr on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:54PM (#26362631)
Not disputing your other points, but functional programming is by most measures older than OOP. The FP hype now is definitely more a matter of rediscovering the wisdom of the past, and I think that's a good thing.
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Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by abraae on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:35PM (#26363117)
That's an excellent point.

Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.

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