[wvenable]

> It's perhaps telling that, today, a fairly large number of experienced programmers tend to avoid it.

No, you have a small number of proponents of functional programming who avoid object oriented programming. These people are a statistical anomaly compared to the overwhelming number of experienced developers working in and on object-oriented technologies in the majority of platforms and languages. It's not even necessary to advocate for OOP anymore.

Perhaps if you were using functional programming instead of OOP I would give you points for this line of reasoning but you aren't.

[contingencies]

> Perhaps if you were using functional programming instead of OOP I would give you points for this line of reasoning but you aren't.

Each to their own. FYI, I spoke at Code Generation 2010 at Cambridge University in the UK and generate much of my code from DSLs and/or other kinds of models these days.

Functional is good, pragmatism is also good. OO is in my view over-used and rarely the best solution.

[ccdan]

Where is functional "good?" Other than in abstract math or FP advocates' heads? :D If it had been any good, it would have been used on a pretty large scale... we live in a pretty large world and someone would have figured it out... and then the others would have fallowed suit...

[contingencies]

Nice troll.