I agree there is or can be a lot of overlap between OOP and aspects of functional. With some diligent language factoring, I suspect they can be blurred to be on

I agree there is or can be a lot of overlap between OOP and aspects of functional. With some diligent language factoring, I suspect they can be blurred to be one in the same. That way one doesn't have to learn two different sets of rules and syntax. But, I'm not sure Java can fix such cleanly without breaking backward compatibility.