On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 11:09 -0700, Alexey Zinger wrote:
> This seems like such a strange thing.  We're talking about computer
> science and engineering, not exactly liberal arts stuff.  I understand
> that many of us feel passionate about technology, mathematical
> elegance and all of that, but the moment I start to take sides in a
> "paradigm war" on the basis of personal allegiance to some thought
> camp rather than pragmatism is the moment I should lose all
> credibility and "exit the battlefield".

If it hadn't been for all the people taking sides based on politics and
"belonging to a particular group" then object-oriented would not be
where it is today. 

Read Thomas Kuhn, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".  The
Functional vs. Object-oriented Paradigm War is a wonderful paradigm of
exactly what he was putting forward as science.

> 

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