Moving Parts

Friday 29 January 2016 at 08:00 GMT

This week, I tried to explain the difference as I see it between object-oriented and functional programming. There are four articles. If you haven't seen them yet, they're linked right here:

  1. Getters, Setters and Properties
  2. Why Couple Data to Behaviour?
  3. The Other Trade-off: Separating Data and Behaviour
  4. Referential Transparency, And The True Meaning Of Functional Programming

But perhaps Michael Feathers said it best.

OO makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. FP makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts.

— Michael Feathers (@mfeathers) November 3, 2010

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