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		bad_user on April 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) What? This has nothing to do with functional programming. FP needs polymorphism too and as a matter of fact FP tends to be even more static. In FP we have type classes, built via OOP in static OOP languages. > Infact having just method you no longer need Polymorphism / Interfaces. That’s false.

foobar_ on April 23, 2019 [–]

It's not. You can use multiple dispatch.

sideshowb on April 23, 2019 | [–]

But then why would you? Isn't ditching type safety a bad idea most of the time ?

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