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FOOP is the concept of functional object oriented programming in newLISP. It originated in a thread on the newLISP forum and was officially added to the interpreter for newLISP 9.3. Submit article

Not long ago a project required me to learn a little Java. As a long-time elitist functional programmer, I was not extremely excited. Due to the low quality of Java software I have used, I assumed, like many, that Java produced slow, bloated, and buggy software. Some languages just feel clunky. Submit article

There is an interesting article at Irrational Exuberance about anti-objects and reflective design. The author states, “The first – and only – programming paradigm I was taught at college was OO.” Another recent blog post by a college CS tutor laments that object oriented design is the first (and often, the only) abstraction method taught [...]