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Decades of blog posts, articles and books about "best practices" led to a suspicion of anything that wasn't bog standard OOP. This site in particular has also contributed to that, especially in the early 2000s, where you can easily find comments disparaging FP.

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I think there's a deeper mechanism in these discussions. They all tend to go "If you do <insert_arbitrary_method_here> fully correct[0], it solves all of your problems."

But [0] is never possible.

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