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> Conjecture: programming is hard, especially as the scope of the system becomes larger and the problem domain more complex. This means that all programming too

> Conjecture: programming is hard, especially as the scope of the system becomes larger and the problem domain more complex. This means that all programming tools and techniques have at least some problems and downsides. Yes. > You can do this with FP too. But FP isn't used so much... So close.... The problem is single paradigm tools. No single paradigm fits all of a problem. And in my experience, OOP is particularly bad at it. Not Prolog levels of bad, but also not much better. We have a huge number of very popular single paradigm OOP languages, because in the '90s the programming gods set forth the decree that OOP is the One True Way to design a system.

joe_the_user 5y ago
No single paradigm fits all of a problem. And in my experience, OOP is particularly bad at it. The only reason OOP wins is because it doesn't enforce a single paradigm. You write 100% or 99% procedural code, you can write a functional program and encapsulate it. You can write a shell script and pop a GUI on top (it's marvelous in a horrible sort of way). OOP's lack of constraints is what lets it be used all sorts of places.
simplify 5y ago
> Not Prolog levels of bad Prolog is homoiconic like lisp, and support metaprogramming, so in theory there's nothing stopping Prolog from being great at most or all of a problem.
djur 5y ago
What are these very popular single paradigm OOP languages? The closest thing I can think of is Java.
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  Java isn't even single paradigm.