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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by Apocryphon on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:35PM (#32429925)
Object-oriented programming has been important for like three decades now, for better or for worse, and if it's so "niche" now, what paradigm has replaced it?
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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by ncmncm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:06PM (#32432363)
The world (well, most of it) has recognized that "paradigms" are themselves niche. Of mainstream languages, only Java still tries to shoehorn all programs into its "paradigm".
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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by Apocryphon on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:34PM (#32432651)
What world are you posting from exactly
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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by ncmncm on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:51AM (#32448332)
The one where C++, C, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Fortran are the mainstream, non-niche languages. Several of those have some support for an OO style, but only Java tries to force it on you.
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