[seanmcdirmid]

> If anything, verbs do nothing without a noun to do them, and nouns need verbs to do anything.

This is only true in natural language. Formal math languages are generally verb-oriented, hence functional languages are verb biased.

> So perhaps we should just acknowledge the value of traits, objects, and functions and move on.

The only thing we (OOP vs. FP fanboys) generally argue about is whether the noun should come first or the verb, which has significant implications in how dispatch is done. It really does determine whether your designs are more naturalistic (noun first) or mathematical (verb first).