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0 pointswangchow9y ago0 comments

They are all useful. Functional: reducing side-effects improves potential for concurrency; Object-Oriented: create a new type and overload operators to make it feel like the abstract mathematical idea it represents; Procedural: subroutines are pretty much indispensable.

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runT1ME9y ago

Explain why FP doesn't do 'create a new type and overload operators to make it feel like the abstract mathematical idea it represents' better with say, parametric polymorphism?

ryandvm9y ago

Just my two cents, but regardless of whether it is a more pure representation, I'd say it is empirically more difficult for the average, object-oriented human to wrap their brain around.

At least on that measure, the object oriented paradigm has demonstrated some success.

runT1ME9y ago

I don't see how. One gives you guarantees, one is a lie. I've done a lot of both, the OO model is strictly inferior in almost every way.

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runT1ME9y ago

Explain why FP doesn't do 'create a new type and overload operators to make it feel like the abstract mathematical idea it represents' better with say, parametric polymorphism?

ryandvm9y ago

Just my two cents, but regardless of whether it is a more pure representation, I'd say it is empirically more difficult for the average, object-oriented human to wrap their brain around.

At least on that measure, the object oriented paradigm has demonstrated some success.

runT1ME9y ago

I don't see how. One gives you guarantees, one is a lie. I've done a lot of both, the OO model is strictly inferior in almost every way.

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