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andrewflnr on March 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How does your programming language handle “minus z...

Not disputing your other points, but functional programming is by most measures older than OOP. The FP hype now is definitely more a matter of rediscovering the wisdom of the past, and I think that's a good thing.

abraae on March 5, 2021 [–]

That's an excellent point.

Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.

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