Well, yes, I should have said “popular OO” instead of traditional. I did mean the Java’s and C#’s, Ruby’s and Python’s of the world, not the Smalltalks. > So t

Well, yes, I should have said “popular OO” instead of traditional. I did mean the Java’s and C#’s, Ruby’s and Python’s of the world, not the Smalltalks. > So the point being that all major languages embrace both paradigms. Sure, nowadays, most languages are very much multi-paradigm, but typically there is a dominant paradigm and the others are somewhat second-class. For example, in recent years, Java has gained a lot of functional programming feature too, but its not in the same ballpark as Haskell.