[duiker101]

What? http://githut.info/ 5 out of the 6 top languages on Github are OOP(not counting CSS). And PHP still supports OOP. Pretty much if you want to create an app for web/mobile/desktop with one of the most common languages you are going to end up using OOP. How can you "never need it"?

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

By and large, the party line on HN is that everybody does (or should be doing) functional programming and / or lisp.

[jsmith0295]

Which really does not reflect reality at all. Outside of research/education, and stuff hobbyists are doing, FP typically isn't typically used alone. Some ideas are just borrowed from it and sprinkled onto OO languages to make things a bit nicer. FP has a lot of good ideas, but that doesn't make it reasonable to assume that it's all you need to know, or even the most important thing for you to know.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

I didn't say it was an accurate reflection of reality.

[jsmith0295]

I didn't think you did, was just commenting on what you'd mentioned.