14 Jul
2009
14 Jul
'09
6:36 a.m.
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Benjamin L.Russell
One often amusing outgrowth of this is that FP (OOP) fanatics anthropomorphize their functions (objects).
Well, I don't think we do. Functions are just mappings of values to values, they may be opaque, but they're predictable, unchanging, and just...too boring to be antropomorphized. Objects contain all kinds of hidden state and dependencies, and the sheer unpredicatability of it all is the reason for the anthropomorphics - it a symptom of a disease, not a desirable quality. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants