On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Massimiliano Tomassoli <kiuhn...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I studied OOP at > University my professors taught me that OOP was extremely successful in > reducing the complexity of big systems.
That's always been the claim about OOP but big systems have an inherent complexity and you can never reduce that - you can just push it around in the system and give the illusion of hiding it. But it's still there. Having done decades of OOP as well as quite a bit of FP both before and after, I don't find OOP to be any more successful at _reducing_ complexity in the real world. > I was given many examples of that in > the many courses of software engineering I took. Hmm, I've never known any courses that deal with "big systems" although many of them discussion the _theory_ of dealing with big systems. > FP was relegated to some > theoretical courses about paradigms. That's unfortunate. I think the shift in education from FP to OOP was actually a bad thing. > With such a background it's not easy to > accept some of the things the Clojure community claim. With my background I find it hard to accept some of the things the educational OOP community claim :) The reality is that "big systems" are just plain hard to work with - in any paradigm - and FP provides tools to manage it just like OOP does. They're just _different_ tools. I'm glad you're open minded. For now you'll just have to trust those people who tell you that Clojure lets you deal with "big system" complexity very well. I'm not sure why you are less trusting of their real world experiences than what your professors told you about (theoretical) OOP... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
