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> I know it's popular around here to dislike OOP, but this guy's main objection is to mutable state. Analogous situations can occur in an imperative paradigm wi

> I know it's popular around here to dislike OOP, but this guy's main objection is to mutable state. Analogous situations can occur in an imperative paradigm without objects. To be fair, the guy's one reference to imperative programming made it sound worse than OOP.

amalcon 17y ago
Imperative and object-oriented are on different axes. OO is an organizational paradigm, while imperative is an algorithmic paradigm. It's not hard to conceive of a more declarative object system.
- apotheon 17y ago
  Agreed. That doesn't dispute what I said, though.