Apr
10
Hybrid Programming
It's been more than a decade since Typical Programmer Greg Jorgensen taught the word about Abject-Oriented Programming.
Much of what he said still applies, but other things have changed. Languages in the Abject-Oriented space have been borrowing ideas from another paradigm entirely—and then everyone realized that languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript had been doing it for years and just hadn't noticed (because these languages do not require you to declare what you're doing, or even to know what you're doing). Meanwhile, new hybrid languages borrow freely from both paradigms.
This other paradigm—which is actually older, but was largely constrained to university basements until recent years—is called Functional Addiction.
Much of what he said still applies, but other things have changed. Languages in the Abject-Oriented space have been borrowing ideas from another paradigm entirely—and then everyone realized that languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript had been doing it for years and just hadn't noticed (because these languages do not require you to declare what you're doing, or even to know what you're doing). Meanwhile, new hybrid languages borrow freely from both paradigms.
This other paradigm—which is actually older, but was largely constrained to university basements until recent years—is called Functional Addiction.