July 4th, 2009

Where are we going again?

A long time ago, Object Oriented was seen as the fix for what all that was wrong in Functional programming land (after all, OO hasn’t been around nearly as long as the functional paradigm). Yet now a lot of articles insinuate that Functional is a step up.

What’s going on here?

some historic perspective courtesy of Axel.

2 Responses to 'Where are we going again?'

  1. 1Slava Pestov
    February 5th, 2007 at 9:40

    What was wrong with functional programming?


  2. 2Four Starters » Business vs Programming: A mindset
    March 10th, 2007 at 23:20

    [...] In the last few months my mind has been filled with some stories by Reinier and Alper about what keeps them busy. I’m especially interested in two of their topics, namely their problems with salespeople and the dead/rise of functional programming. [...]


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