> Again, languages from both paradigms equally allow for bad code to be written. I really don’t think that the debate should be at the paradigm level. We’re bet

> Again, languages from both paradigms equally allow for bad code to be written. I really don’t think that the debate should be at the paradigm level. We’re better off debating about specific policies in code style. This perspective is actually important. When you look at OOP it is a paradigm but not a well defined one. You certainly wouldn't call it a policy. FP (pure functional programming) however is much closer to a policy in the sense that there isn't so much to argue about. You can see from a piece of code if it is "proper" pure FP or not, whereas for OOP, it is easy to do things that are claimed to be "OOP" by half and claimed to be "improper OOP" by the other half. And depending on how you define OOP, it is actually completely orthogonal to FP. Just like OOP puts mostly helpful restrictions on how you can model your problem in code, FP puts additional mostly helpful restrictions on it.