Introduction
Man, I’ve had this idea in my head for more than a month now (luckily I wrote it down, too), waiting until the day I wrote this post. I didn’t write it because I was busy with the move and new job, but now things are finally settling down!
Here’s the thing: When you really dig into it, proper object-oriented programming and functional programming are pretty similar. The biggest difference is that object-oriented programming likes to use encapsulation to hide the real data behind facades of objects – requiring you to define methods attached to the type that know about private details – while functional programming is quite up front about it all – making it so that you generally get switch-like structures (but WAY better) that allow you write one function to handle all of the different types. Continue Reading