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Not OP, but a thought anyway: these worldviews are sort of duals of each other, IMHO. You can consider a "noun" to be one instance of a verb's application, i.e., an action. For example, "send an email" or "purchase an item", both verbs, translate to creating new nouns representing (respectively) an email in my Outbox or a transaction. The advantage of the noun worldview is that the nouns can describe the history of verbs and the resulting application state, e.g., I can look at and manage the whole ledger of transactions, whereas verbs are just ad-hoc manipulations of that state.

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