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Re:Why study functional programming? (2012) by guelo on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:17PM (#32322381)
One of the bigger advantages of OOP that I rarely see discussed is the natural namespacing that you get. In other paradigms you end up polluting the global namespace more easily, harming autocompletion and discoverability.
Re:Why study functional programming? (2012) by pharmakom on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:42PM (#32322686)
Most FP languages have modules so not sure where this idea comes from.