In OO, it's the data that is the "important" thing: you define the class
which contains member data, and only incidentally contains code for
manipulating the object. In FP, it's the code that's important: you
define a function which contains code for working with the data, and
only incidentally define what the data is.
-- almkgor, on reddit
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- unknown
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
Photography is painting with light.
-- Eric Hamilton
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months
might as well have been written by someone else.
-- Eagleson’s Law
The problem is that Microsoft just has no taste. And I don't mean that
in a small way, I mean that in a big way.
-- Steve Jobs
All creativity is an extended form of a joke.
-- Alan Kay
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
In OO, it's the data that is the "important" thing: you define the class
which contains member data, and only incidentally contains code for
manipulating the object. In FP, it's the code that's important: you
define a function which contains code for working with the data, and
only incidentally define what the data is.
-- almkgor, on reddit