[eternalban]

> These discussions tend to boil down to OOP vs FP. That's a false dichotomy. The alternative to OOP is not FP, it's pre-OOP imperative.

Thank you for raising this oft ignored fact. I remember graduating from C to C++ in order to hack on SGI’s OpenGL in 1991. Possibly graphics and scene-graphs are a sweet spot for OOP, but I found the approach very elegant and quite effective.

OOP, as a paradigm (it is not a “tool”), is one of the handful of viable approaches for organizing and writing code. Given that these are paradigms, it is natural that there are those who have a natural mental affinity for one and abhorrence for another. In my view, the only merit in these comparative critiques is when contextualized within a specific, e.g. UI development, problem space.

(Also, Joe (RIP) is indeed wrong. OOP doesn’t suck, it bloows. /g)