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Did functional programming predated Object oriented programming or rather the opposite?

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By "functional" I don't mean "procedural" (i.e. I don't mean to programming which is done solely or primarily with these data structures commonly known as "functions" but are actually procedures), rather, I mean "functional" by basic (mathematical?) programming meaning.

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Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Kind of depends on how you define these terms. All of them go back to the earliest days of computing, in some form. Private encapsulation of autonomous "abstract data types" was around very early, long before "modern" OOP emerged in the 1980s somewhere.

sktpin‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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googling "first object oriented" vs. "first functional" programming language, there turn up Simula (1967) and LISP (late 1950's)

elgonzo‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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Yeah, either we stick with the commonly used definitions or interpretations of "object oriented programming" and "functional programming", or we end up with a bunch of different and contradictory answers that despite their contradictions will all be true in some sense because we change the rules of the game as we go along...

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