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So functional programming seems to be the bleeding edge programming paradigm that hackers seem to agree on. What other paradigms are highly regarded among hack

• pixelbath 10y ago
  OOP? DRY?
• virtualwhys 10y ago
  > What other paradigms are highly regarded among hackers? None, but hybrid object functional languages have been on the rise in recent years (though, like FP based languages, still very much niche). See Scala, Ceylon, OCaml, among others. Language functionality aside, multi-target is the next great wave. For example, came across this today[1], pretty awesome -- compiles to server-side, client-side, and native! Would be quite nice to write-once run literally everywhere with a single language, but that looks to be a couple of years off (if there are production ready tri-target languages out there, I'd like to check them out). [1] https://github.com/mkotsbak/scala-native-tellstick-example/tree/crossProjectWithSJS https://github.com/mkotsbak/scala-native-tellstick-example/t...
• collyw 10y ago
  Personally I like mixed metaphor languages these days using different paradigms where appropriate. In Python I find OOP good for higher level structure, and a more functional style for lower level units.