Object-oriented programming is dead. Wait, really?

Functional programming evangelists, you’re pointing your guns at the wrong enemy

Ari Joury, PhD
Towards Data Science
9 min readSep 20, 2020

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If so many people are hating on object-oriented programming, why is it still so dominant? Photo by Vale Zmeykov on Unsplash

Programming in the 1960s had a big problem: computers weren’t that powerful yet, and somehow they needed to split the capacities between data structures and procedures.

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