I take offence with postmodern relativism. Not every paradigm is created equal (and for the record, black culture is less "good" than white culture. Come on, "acting white" because you have good grades?).
The way to get better as a professional is to analyze various ways of doing stuff and find which is better and how much of it you can use. This article does exactly that.
That's the point of throwing in a controversial example: no matter how you feel about an issue, reality is still out there, with hard edges and sharp points. If you ignore it and go the "everything is just as good"-way, you suffer. You may feel good about yourself, but you still do worse.
It makes me concerned that if I agree with it, I am doing so because of equally faulty logic that has led you to believe racist and sexist claims should not be judged harshly.
The problem with it is basically that you posit your view as being right before reasoning. The arguments you may have on any subject will be subjected to how you see the world in the first place. Your arguments for being misogynist probably hold perfectly together - in the value system that you constructed for yourself. They will certainly not hold in mine. Postmodernism asks "what if there was not one unique value system?" The fact that you don't understand that means that you can't be part of a productive discussion, because you will always think you're right.
You actually managed to make me laugh. As it happens, that's pretty much my idea of postmodernism, which I dislike just as much after your (very well-written) reminder. But doesn't it strike you as ironic that you just managed to attack everything I have to say even before I say it with what it looks like a well-placed ad-hominem, while at the same time saying that it's me who is destroying productive conversation?
Don't do any more Molotov cocktail-tossing on HN, please.
It's irrelevant to the discussion, so: no. Both add nothing to the topic of the discussion and are thus completely worthless opinions within this context. You can be whatever you like, but your prejudices have nothing to do with OOP - leave them out of this discussion please.
Please consider deleting your comments.
No it doesn't , this is a superficial rant, worse , this is a click bait that links to a real article with substance at the end , but wants to capture web traffic with an outrageous title. But it is not surprising for a consultancy. That's what's they do, they are the problem.
I'm all for criticizing programming paradigms ,but this is just childish bashing
> Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California
For real ?
Are we scientists ? or kids in a playground ? the impact of OOP or FP on IT projects could be measured right ? so let's do that , let's get the data and let's find out how many projects fail because of OOP , what are the costs in time, money,bugs associated with using OOP ... the rest is just barking (pun intended)
But I would add that the amount of research that has gone into this topic is woeful. As far as I can discern there is no consensus among the scientific community as to the pros and cons of each paradigm.
I suspect there is politics at play here. And don't give me any of that non-sense about the current scientific process being impartial. LOL. It's got to the point where you can't trust the conclusions drawn about anything where there are strong vested interests.
Dude, you need to have a think about the whole racism thing.