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Well there is something unfunctional about OOP, encapsulation of state and some implicit assumptions about mutability. Although I do agree that neither paradigm is at odds with the other. Scala demonstrates that there can be a fruitful interplay between both.

As for the existence of sophisticated type systems I again don't disagree with you. I'm having a lot of fun playing with TypeScript and mixing and matching dynamically and statically typed portions of my code. I'm looking forward to see where that line of work leads because it is an extremely pragmatic approach to type systems and helps me program instead of adding unnecessary cognitive overhead.




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