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#1 just because its a fuzzy distinction does not mean a distinction should be attempted, the comments about binary trees is useful here

#2 thats a core concept behind functional programming thats seperate from oo, most people dont realise that with object methods, the object is an input to that function, not just its parameters

I explained on irc for #3, but for everyone else, those type specifications are not data structures, there is no coupling nor any methods invoked, they are purely type specification that describe the datatype, useful for (optional) static type analysis and documentation, they arent equivocal to typedefs, which are datastructures (those are records in erlang).

#4 it is not everything in one file, it is everything related in one file, again this is just the ability to separate the data from the function that act upon it

It might be worth taking a second to see if you actually understand the points he is making as opposed to attacking them, before you edited in the counter arguments this was just an ad hominem attack.




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