On 7/19/2015 11:03 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
The way we write software evolves however. Things that were thought as
state of the art 25 years ago aren't necessarily nowadays (for example
procedural programming that has been mostly superseded by object
oriented programming). And in this regards programming languages are
like natural languages: they evolve, they change. If a language
doesn't evolve anymore it can be considered dead (e.g. Latin, Ancient
Greek).
But evolving doesn't mean you have to turn (Free)Pascal in another
incarnation of Python, Ruby, Haskell or whatever. And a lot of basic
programming paradigms that existed 25 years ago are just as valid today.
There is nothing wrong with procedural programming, just as there is
nothing inherently wrong with object oriented programming. You can abuse
and misuse both approaches. And quite frankly, what I have seen in
object oriented code in recent years, I would rather take as a negative
example of evolution, of ways/things not to go/do...
Ralf
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