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I would. That's the whole point: in object-oriented programming, everything revolves around the state machine, whereas in functional programming, every function

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.