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		waynecochran on Feb 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Case against OOP is understated, not overstated (2... OOP and functional programming are orthogonal -- you can do both ...

ebruchez on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

That's the exact premise of Scala, by the way: more object-oriented than most object-oriented languages (including Java), and yet enabling functional programming.

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