Object-oriented vs. functional styles in curricula (plus a response from Alan Kay)

I personally feel like functional programming will rise. I mean it has been on the side for a long time will OO has been all the rave.

And now as conncurrency/parallellism becomes more important, well functional programming handles that much better(erlang haskell) than OO-languages do.

OO has it's place, as has functional and procedural code, the problem is as usual fundamentalists who has to make everyone think like them and dont realize all human theories are flawed. We will make better and better theories but object-orientation is hardly the theory to replace all theories.

Alan Kay ignores the object-oriented vs. functional debate and talks about the larger role of education in society. His comments (especially his second) are just crazy crazy good.