> UPDATE: I have a feeling that in 25 years we'll be dissing the current fad du jour - functional programming.
Only if unwashed masses start doing a half-baked version of FP without really understanding it. This is what happened to OO. It's similar to what happens to musical genres.
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> UPDATE: I have a feeling that in 25 years we'll be dissing the current fad du jour - functional programming.
Only if unwashed masses start doing a half-baked version of FP without really understanding it. This is what happened to OO. It's similar to what happens to musical genres.