On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 11:27:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:09:23
=?UTF-8?B?Ikx1w61z?=.Marques
<[email protected]>@puremagic.com wrote:
I think you will be pleased with the argument, given D's
philosophy:
https://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/oop-fp/
Yeah. Both OO and functional programming are useful, but trying
to use any one
paradigm exclusively always ends up contorting things. To make
this clean, you
really need to be able to mix and match paradigms as
appropriate.
On a related note, a classic blog post that I quite like on how
Java takes OO
too far is
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html
If Java takes OO too far, what to say about Smalltalk and
derivatives?
The balanced approach that C++ and D take is definitely the
better one IMHO
(and D tends to do it better IMHO, since it better supports
functional
programming than C++ does, meaning that you end up with fewer
FP solutions in
C++ even when they'd be appropriate).
- Jonathan M Davis
The future belongs to multi-paradigm languages, I would say.
What I miss still in languages like D, is the Hindley–Milner type
inference,
algebraic data types and pattern matching.
--
Paulo
