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It's definitely a very small post(I expected more when I opened it) but I assumed that people upvoted it because they were interested in the discussion that it
by eieio 13y ago
It's definitely a very small post(I expected more when I opened it) but I assumed that people upvoted it because they were interested in the discussion that it would produce. There's definitely plenty to say on the subject of functional vs object-oriented programming, even if this article doesn't happen to say much.
- TeMPOraL 13y ago> I assumed that people upvoted it because they were interested in the discussion that it would produce. I wonder how many people here do this (i.e. upvote topics for HN discussion, not for the submission itself). Personally I do that quite often.
- eieio 13y agoI do it fairly often depending on the topic. There are topics for which I am more interested in the discussion than in the actual article. For an article like this I'm split. I'm a passionate programmer and would love to read a good article on the tradeoffs between functional and object-oriented styles. I'd also love to read a good discussion about the two styles. For some topics, say, a site being down, I don't really care about the discussion in most circumstances. For many other topics, I'm more interested in a good discussion about the topic than I am in any particular article on the topic. It's harder for me to articulate which topics those are, but I know them when I see them.