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Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables by Freedom2 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:02PM (#45767882)
Decades of blog posts, articles and books about "best practices" led to a suspicion of anything that wasn't bog standard OOP. This site in particular has also contributed to that, especially in the early 2000s, where you can easily find comments disparaging FP.
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Re:John Carmack on Mutable Variables by jeffreygoesto on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:03AM (#45769413)
I think there's a deeper mechanism in these discussions. They all tend to go "If you do <insert_arbitrary_method_here> fully correct[0], it solves all of your problems."

But [0] is never possible.

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