Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) (leminal.space)

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I feel proponents of any programming language put a lot of spin around what isolated aspects it is good for, but fail to illustrate what a programmer in even one target domain gains from using it.

Are there programming language implementations unlike what is described above, that you feel back up their marketing?

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[-] Womble@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

Neither python or JS are "rigidly" OOP, they have support for them but you can very easily do functional or imperative programming in either. out of those I believe Java is the only one that "rigid OOP" is a fair descriptor for, and I could be wrong on that as its not a language I've used (c# which I have and started as essentially microsoft Java has moved away from that style by incorporating numerous functional features from f#)

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact, you can totally do functional programming in C++ too. Actually, it is in the top-right of the λ-cube, making it (in a specific sense) a more functional-programming language than Haskell or LISP :D

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