OOP (2)

Ralf Westphal

Functional Dependencies Considered Harmful

You’ve probably heard of the seminal paper „Go To Statement Considered Harmful“ by Edsger Dijkstra from 1968. It paved the way for broad adoption of then modern programming languages with their control flow statements like if-then, for, or while. With Pascal and C probably being…

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Ralf Westphal

Messaging - The Missing Ingredient

Robert C. Martin wrote an interesting article on the orthogonality of Object-Orientation (OO) and Functional Programming (FP). There is no rivalry between the two, or at least should not be. Both approaches have their merits. FP and OO work nicely together. Both attributes are desirable…

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