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Guest post from the future - here's a quote from a similar page on cat-v.org in 2024: "FO is the “structured programming” snake oil of the 10s. Useful at times

by al2o3cr 12y ago

Guest post from the future - here's a quote from a similar page on cat-v.org in 2024: "FO is the “structured programming” snake oil of the 10s. Useful at times, but hardly the “end all” programing paradigm some like to make out of it. And, at least in it’s most popular forms, it’s can be extremely harmful and dramatically increase complexity."

imanaccount247 12y ago
What is FO?
- 4mnt 12y ago
  Function Oriented (~ OO: Object Oriented)
  - imanaccount247 12y ago
    Procedural? That's been around for a really long time, and isn't a fad or being pushed by marketers like OO was.
TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
Indeed. It's much easier to be a web contrarian than to build widely-used solutions that don't have limitations, drawbacks, inconsistencies, or other issues.
- imanaccount247 12y ago
  It is a list of quotes from people who have in fact built such "widely-used solutions". How is that being a "web contrarian"? Do you really think Rob Pike has never written any code? How did go happen then? You don't think Carmack has maybe a little bit of experience with large, complex software projects?