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That’s an interesting read Stefan, way to long and a bit hard to follow given the ‘chat’ format but found it also to be funny (wizzdle) and does brings a couple of valid points about OOP and how that evolved… 4GL, like PHP, got that bolted on only recently and, while it still lacks few things any ’true OOP language’ has, everyone got into the bandwagon and seems to think OOP (ABL) is somehow inherently better than the ‘legacy' 4GL while I find it to be equally easy to write bad code in any of them 
Did had a session at EMEA PUG Challenge this year that probably many took as a rant agains OOP and frameworks and up to a point that is not totally untrue, moving from shared variables to static properties just doesn’t make it right in my eyes and ABL OOP is often bloated with state information to a point where is very hard to find any method that will constantly return the same result given a set of input data. Have to admit didn’t get the time to check-out a pure functional language till now but given your experience with 4GL would you say some of the principles of functional programming can be achieved in that realm, maybe even using the twisted object oriented paradigm? Marian Edu Acorn IT www.acorn-it.com www.akera.io +40 740 036 212
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Did had a session at EMEA PUG Challenge this year that probably many took as a rant agains OOP and frameworks and up to a point that is not totally untrue, moving from shared variables to static properties just doesn’t make it right in my eyes and ABL OOP is often bloated with state information to a point where is very hard to find any method that will constantly return the same result given a set of input data. Have to admit didn’t get the time to check-out a pure functional language till now but given your experience with 4GL would you say some of the principles of functional programming can be achieved in that realm, maybe even using the twisted object oriented paradigm? Marian Edu Acorn IT www.acorn-it.com www.akera.io +40 740 036 212Continue reading...