| That's a different way to approach the challenge though. You're hoping that some technique or tool can be so rigid and fool proof that no one can write a bad program in it. Where as I'm hoping to find some techniques and tools that let me write programs with better designs. Nothing fulfills the former, even though lots of people are researching it. On the other hand, I'd say FP fulfills the latter. So the questions for me become about the spread of quality. Is the worst FP program worse or better than the worse OO program? And what about the best? I'd personally say the worst of FP is better than the worst of OO, and similarly, the best of FP is better than the best of OO. That makes me prefer it overall as my paradigm of choice. Even though this does mean you will find FP code bases that are worse than some OO code bases, but if you wanted to pick a paradigm in order for you to write a well designed program, FP would probably be a better choice, obviously, in my own opinion, so that's why I personally pick FP over OO. |