Discussion on "4 Programming Paradigms Every Developer Should Know"

Fernando Doglio · 2022-03-28T17:27:15.000Z

I’m a firm believer that if you’re a developer, you need to be aware of how things work outside of your comfort zone, even if you’re not planning to step outside of it anytime soon. The fact that you know there is a different way of doing something i...

There seems to be something missing at "For example: That code there is terrible,..." What code?

Thanks for the catch Matt, I was definitely missing some code snippets there from the import into Hashnode. I've corrected the article now, so it should make a lot more sense now.

Cheers!

This is a wonderful article..

Thanks Kamiz, glad you liked it :)

Nice descriptions! And putting OO last is correct. A good language can do all four paradigms, but I find OO is easiest to work with as it avoids the "Hell's Half Acre" style of programming where everything related to solving a particular problem is scattered across the entire code base. Naming conventions help, but objects concentrate thing in specific places so you can understand all the logic together.

Most people fail in OO development because they never understand IS A and HAS A relationships and tend to do huge inheritance trees when trying to solve a HAS A issue. Inheritance should not be widely used in OO development. If you can solve it with HAS A, you should.

Thanks Bruce for the feedback and the insight. Definitely I agree with you that OOP does help to keep things organized, that said, there are ways to solve the problem you mention with other paradigms as well. I'm a firm advocate for functional programming, and I think that it provides some interesting shortcuts to cool patterns and behaviors that you don't fully get with pure OOP. We could be discussingg this forever, the truth is at this point this is more a matter of preference than anything else.

Again, thanks for the insight!!

This is a very nice article. The way you explain your points makes them really understandable. Nice post.

Really appreciate the feedback!

This is a wonderful article, thank you for explaining most programming paradigms, I think I am now beginning to understand that programming is not about language or code, it's about understanding things like this and how you use them at scale, its also what makes you a senior developer

Correct! Once you start seeing that, comfronting a new language is a lot easier. As long as you understand the paradigm, picking up the syntactic nuances is simple.

Thanks for the feedback Yahaya!

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