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by rewmie 1070 days ago
> That would be fair if OO/FP posts had always mentioned that the ideas were borne out of academia and don't necessarily easily apply in other domains, but that ship has sailed..

OO has been widely adopted because it maps almost perfectly to most domains.

FP is starting to be adopted because first class support from programming languages and frameworks lowered the barrier to entry by eliminating the need to implement all primitives and infrastructure. FP is being adopted because it maps almost perfectly to some domains.

What's your point, exactly?