What about those huge projects that use functional designs? Like, for example, someone wrote a large order-processing app in LISP. That wasn't OO ... it was functional.

Now, you're also making a gross generalization, which is that OO and procedural and functional (etc.) cannot work together. The best large projects tend to have OO and functional and procedural working together.

For example(!) - a GUI backend is OO, in that it allows for objects to be built, like various Message:: and Signal:: classes. YET(!), the actual event processor is designed functionally, in that it uses handlers to process what it receives.

Is that a bad design?

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In reply to Re: OO design vs. procedural design (Was: From the Void and into the Light...) by dragonchild
in thread From the Void and into the Light... by Dogma

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