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I wouldn't say that object oriented is completely opposed to functional, though.

• YorkshireSeason 8y ago
  Indeed, Scala's main innovation was to demonstrate that functional programming is a well-behaved edge-case of OO programming. (Before Scala, research was mostly trying to show the opposite: how OO is an edge case of FP, but that didn't work quite so well.)
• Annatar 8y ago
  I would. That's the whole point: in object-oriented programming, everything revolves around the state machine, whereas in functional programming, every function is idempotent and the state machine irrelevant. Lisp is a good example of that.
  • ealhad 8y ago
    Are you giving Lisp as an example of functional or object-oriented programming? I mean, Common Lisp has had CLOS since at least 1984.
    • Annatar 8y ago
      Functional of course.
      • ealhad 8y ago
        That's what I thought. And yet, object-oriented programming is quite common in many Lisps.