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4 years ago Well, I don't know if C is the best language theoretically, but I can get things done.
In short, OOP is most popular because it is a reflection of how our brain functions.
Arguably most successful FP is Scala - a multi paradigm language by their own definition.
00:00:27 Richard Feldman: Why are things the way they are? It's complicated. 00:00:53 Richard Feldman: Outline 00:00:59 Richard Feldman: Part 1. Language 00:01:01 Richard Feldman: What languages are norm today. Top 10. No functional programming language. 00:01:42 Richard Feldman: How did they get popular. 00:02:05 Richard Feldman: 1. Killer apps. VisiCal to Apple II/Rails to Ruby/Wordpress & Drupal to PHP ... 00:06:21 Richard Feldman: 2. Platform Exclusivity. ObjC/Swift to iPhone sales / JS to web&internet user / C# to Windows&VS 00:10:21 Richard Feldman: 3. Quickly Upgrade. CoffieScript&TypeScript to JS / Kotlin to Java 00:13:27 Richard Feldman: 4. Epic Marketing. $500M Java marketing compaign in 2003 00:16:15 Richard Feldman: 5. Slow and Steady. Python story 00:17:53 Richard Feldman: Other Popularity Factors. Syntax/JobMarket/Community 00:18:46 Richard Feldman: Why are the most popular languages OO except C. 00:19:15 Richard Feldman: Part 2. Paradigm 00:19:39 Richard Feldman: Uniuquely OO features. Encapsulation = Modularity 00:35:35 Richard Feldman: They are OO because modularity is a good idea and they originally got if from OO by chance. 00:35:47 Richard Feldman: Part 3. Style 00:35:50 Richard Feldman: FP Style : avoid mutation and side effects 00:36:31 Richard Feldman: Why isn't FP style the norm? No sufficiently large 'killer apps' / No exclusivity on large platforms / Can't be a quick upgrade if substantially diffeerent / No epic marketing budgets / Slow & steady growth takes decades 00:41:02 Richard Feldman: OO languages are the norm not because of uniquely OO features. 00:41:32 Richard Feldman: FP style just need time to become the norm. 00:41:50 Richard Feldman: Questions. 00:42:03 Question1: How do you see Lisp fiting in is it a FP language or not? 00:42:21 Answer: Classifying a language is functional or not is kind of arbitrary, definitely very fuzzy and ultimately not as important as talking about the style and their support for the style like being able to avoid mutation and side-effects and still have a good experience. 00:44:03 Question2: How does performance factor into this. 00:44:26 Answer: Perfromance is not the key factor to the popularity of a language.
语言演化是个复杂的话题，由于惯性的存在，未来函数式编程将长期寄居于主流语言之中，并逐渐流行开来。但纯粹如 Haskel 的函数式编程语言，在我有生之年几乎不大可能成为主流。
如果 Scala 能成为主流，那也算是奇迹了。
结论：抓紧学习 Scala 和 Java。
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4)
很棒的演讲，系统性的梳理了语言流行的原因，以及 OO 为什么得以横行于世。
语言流行的可能原因：
OO（面向对象）是语言流行的根本原因码？ 答案：并不是。OO 流行的原因是，为了更好的实现「模块化」，恰好采用了 object 这一抽象，以及 class 这一形式。
当下的世界不再是 OOP 独霸，而函数式编程风格也开始逐渐流行开来。不讲高深的函数式编程概念，只是在某些局部贯彻两个基本点：