some reading material
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Humph -- doesn't even mention Scala. Piker. Yes, I'm as biased as anybody, but having programming in the majority of the displayed languages, I do feel that I at least have an informed opinion. His core point -- that there is no single perfect language -- is certainly correct, but some at least try harder than others.
More seriously, his argument about the polarization of the programming world looks pretty dated, and is getting moreso with each passing month. Few serious languages are strictly OO or Functional, and the good ones are embracing both paradigms with a will. Scala goes further than any other language in being utterly serious about doing both paradigms *well*, but even Java is giving ground and becoming more functional. (Notably, C# is also doing a good job of stealing all the best ideas from both sides of the argument -- one of those cases where MS is doing it right.)
So the reality is that things are actually getting steadily *less* polarized: while there are outliers, the majority of programming languages are getting more and more alike at the moment...
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