Functional and OOP the way you seem to be thinking about them aren't necessarily at odds. If you don't immutably update objects and instead do 'return-the-updat

Functional and OOP the way you seem to be thinking about them aren't necessarily at odds. If you don't immutably update objects and instead do 'return-the-updated-object' then it could fit in with functional. They seem to do this often in Haskell libraries for example. The weird thing is the notion of identity across OOP and Functional--you can have shared handles to an underlying object modified by separate code in traditional OOP. Mixing paradigms is interesting. My favorite is to not do class-based object oriented, but prototype-based instead, with multiple parents like in Self. I wonder how that would combine with immutable objects.