Joe Armstrong

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I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

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dvorakdan 7 years, 7 months ago
He is talking about software reusability and computer languages. It made no sense to me without that information.

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