I've always had a different view about OO vs Functional.
OO is beneficial to the programmer.
Functional provides benefits in performance, footprint and memory utilization.
You can solve any problem with either approach. Microprocessors don't care. I've written genetic evolver code in machine language (don't ask) as well as C, C++, Python and objective C. The OO languages make it easy for the programmer, while the Functional approach requires more thought, planning and perhaps attention to detail.
I tend to prefer The functional approach, probably because I did tons of real work using this model before OO came into my world. However, I certainly appreciate how much easier some things can be in OO. What I object to is this idea that everything today has to be an object, this is wasteful and slow.
Of course, I am biased. When you learned programming starting with machine language, then Forth and then C before touching C++ your view of how to solve problems computationally is bound to be quite different than that of someone who started life with, say, Java.
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I've always had a different view about OO vs Functional.
OO is beneficial to the programmer.
Functional provides benefits in performance, footprint and memory utilization.
You can solve any problem with either approach. Microprocessors don't care. I've written genetic evolver code in machine language (don't ask) as well as C, C++, Python and objective C. The OO languages make it easy for the programmer, while the Functional approach requires more thought, planning and perhaps attention to detail.
I tend to prefer The functional approach, probably because I did tons of real work using this model before OO came into my world. However, I certainly appreciate how much easier some things can be in OO. What I object to is this idea that everything today has to be an object, this is wasteful and slow.
Of course, I am biased. When you learned programming starting with machine language, then Forth and then C before touching C++ your view of how to solve problems computationally is bound to be quite different than that of someone who started life with, say, Java.