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"Inherently harmful" is a bit vitriolic. If not a majority then a huge percentage of the world's systems are based around OOP and for the most part they functio
by Aqueous 12y ago
"Inherently harmful" is a bit vitriolic. If not a majority then a huge percentage of the world's systems are based around OOP and for the most part they function just fine. When people say these things I wonder what bubble they are living in where something is either the best thing ever or shit. The world doesn't work like that.
That said, I prefer a hybrid approach which is why I use Scala. It's not an either/or (or, if you prefer, an Option monad :-)
- rrradical 12y agoSure, but sometimes strong opinions are necessary to make progress. If Dijkstra hadn't written "Go To Statement Considered Harmful", would we still be using them today? Probably not, but it probably helped bring quicker progress. Just because you can build a house with a rock doesn't make it the best tool for the job, and it's in the interest of the carpenters to figure out what is the best tool for the job.