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wasn't the whole point of Functional Programming to avoid languages like JavaScript (or even OOP like Python, C++)?
by mrcactu5 11y ago
wasn't the whole point of Functional Programming to avoid languages like JavaScript (or even OOP like Python, C++)?
- maxerickson 11y agoNo, not really. Lisp and other functional languages predate the articulation of OOP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#History http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay... So functional programming isn't a reaction to OOP. It's also the case that Python is not particularly OOP (it does seem to me that lots of people that came to it from Java use it that way).