@ConflictingTheories @matrix This is why most commonly used programming languages have support for all of these programming styles and why the hyper specialized languages usually wind up in the dustbin of history.
Why is it a bad idea ?
@matrix BASIC and assembly are the only true programming languages.
@matrix
I don't think that there is a perfect paradigm because they all work...and they all suck in some way.
Imperative...needed for RTOS
Functional...useful for math, linear operations, map-reduce, immutability, replay
OOP...useful for modeling relationships, great for abstraction, great for systems which can be composed, Lego systems....
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Sure you can find issues in all cases, but none of them fail if you can keep your mental models in check...the problem is always the programmer