Functional programming vs. "OO" programming (or, How to entirely miss the point)

Hexstream · on March 14, 2008

Hi, I'm looking for the vote-article-down button. Has anyone seen him? I really, REALLY need to talk to him...

Hexstream · on March 14, 2008

I just realized that "(or, How to entirely miss the point)" is from the point of view of the submitter, not the article.

Why submit an article written by someone who criticizes that which he doesn't even grasp the basics of when you're fully aware of his irrelevance?

jkush · on March 15, 2008

Because it's...funny?

Actually, it's not funny at all. His attitude is a perfect example of how many 9-5 programmers act when faced with functional programming.

If he was a .NET developer he'd be using the new functional features of .NET 2.0 and greater in the same old imperative way and would just continue to miss the point.

I guess the reason why I thought this worthy of being posted was not to make fun of this guy personally, but to use his kind of thinking as an example.

Is that uncharitable of me?

If you think it is, then you'd probably downvote all the dailywtf.com submissions, too. Right?

henning · on March 14, 2008

This falls into the category of being "not even wrong".

Xichekolas · on March 14, 2008

"I can't speak to the affect of one programming language or another on the way people think [...] my language is Java [...]"

Ahhh, there it is.

graywh · on March 14, 2008

The first several comments to the article are definitely worth reading.

Xichekolas · on March 14, 2008

I don't have an account and hence can't see the comments... mind pasting the good bits here for me?

jkush · on March 15, 2008

The comments look like more blog posts, scroll down a bit and you'll see them.

Xichekolas · on March 15, 2008

Oh, yeah I didn't even read them... just assumed they were other posts.

feels dumb

tel · on March 14, 2008

This must be sarcastic, right?