What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming

Re:What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functio... by olau on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @04:48AM (#6716784)

Chill out people. The man is saying that the pure object-oriented model and the pure functional programming model have corners where they are lacking. He's not saying it's a bad idea to write object-oriented programs or pure functions.

If you have ever needed a little helper function in Java and wondered why you had to stick it in a static method in a class, I think you'll understand his point. Similarly, many of the Lisp programs I've seen end up with a fair amount of procedural code.

Basically, he's asking you to take a step back and appreciate what you have (and don't have), rather than what you think you have. This would lead to more interesting conversations.

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Re:What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functio... by icebraining on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @05:24AM (#6716920)

If you have ever needed a little helper function in Java and wondered why you had to stick it in a static method in a class, I think you'll understand his point.

But that's a flaw in Java, not OOP, and it's not a consequence of Java being a pure OOP language (which it isn't).

If one wants to criticize OOP, the language to focus on should be Smalltalk.

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Re:What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functio... by codygman on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @12:38PM (#6719298)

He's also making accusations and not providing proof for them. As well as casting each paradigm in a negative light (extreme friendliness, extreme helpfulness, extreme eating all sound negative) without even defining what exactly "extreme OOP" or "extreme FP" are.

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