I will preface the following opinion by saying that I feel like I have never really "gotten" OOP, which may mean that I haven't, or it may mean that I have and was simply underwhelmed by it. So please, feel free to enlighten me on how I got it wrong:
Having clarified that, I must say that the way I understand it, while FP is a way of structuring processes, OOP is a way of structuring code, so the two paradigms operate at different levels, and their frequent opposition is more a result of companies staking their worth on buzzword branding than anything having to do with the paradigms themselves.
OOP was the ultimate programming buzzword for so long, that my realization that it is mostly about how one organizes a program's code, and deciding which parts of it can call which other parts, was something of a buzz kill. I feel OOP has little bearing on how things are done, mostly on where they are kept, while FP, which can be traced back to Lambda Calculus which is itself a model of computation, is much more involved in the how of things.
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I will preface the following opinion by saying that I feel like I have never really "gotten" OOP, which may mean that I haven't, or it may mean that I have and was simply underwhelmed by it. So please, feel free to enlighten me on how I got it wrong:
Having clarified that, I must say that the way I understand it, while FP is a way of structuring processes, OOP is a way of structuring code, so the two paradigms operate at different levels, and their frequent opposition is more a result of companies staking their worth on buzzword branding than anything having to do with the paradigms themselves.
OOP was the ultimate programming buzzword for so long, that my realization that it is mostly about how one organizes a program's code, and deciding which parts of it can call which other parts, was something of a buzz kill. I feel OOP has little bearing on how things are done, mostly on where they are kept, while FP, which can be traced back to Lambda Calculus which is itself a model of computation, is much more involved in the how of things.