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This is probably a cognitive bias obtained from reading the industry trade press. There's a notable alternative -- you don't have a meteoric rise to giant status, but you also don'…

Great, thanks! Your example makes a lot more sense now. The easy way out is to say that these languages are OO in the same sense that Java is functional. Easy but maybe not unfair,…

The author's case is based upon Harriman's account of induction in the natural sciences. I don't think that's appropriate here. Computer Science -- or at least PL/Software Engineer…

I have no idea how defining the type of a function's domain is supposed to be indicative to dynamic dispatch or associated methods with classes. I think I don't understand your exa…

The article author was referring to inductive reasoning in the sense of epistemology, which is not the same as mathematical induction. In fact, mathematical induction is a deductiv…

The page you link seems to indicate that Kay didn't propose this as a definitive definition of OOP, but rather as a description of the defining features of Smalltalk. I'm not famil…

The mainstream programming language community has a pretty strong consensus on what OOP means, in terms of language features. Some people out there seem to have some confused notio…

I think your post mostly re-enforces the OP's claim that FP won't save the day. To quote the OP, "it is obvious to me that doing FP right is (and will be) very hard." In-so-far as …

Related is Dijkstra's "on the fact that the ocean has two sides": https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...

I serve on a tech advisory committee for a local school district. I am unforgiving on a single point: students need access to a development environment -- or at least the ability t…