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Uchikoma on April 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

"Haskell Propaganda: OOP programming couples code and data together in unnatural ways. Typeclasses are a better way of structuring logic."

should be

"Inheritance couples code and data together in unnatural ways. Typeclasses are a better way of structuring logic."

papsosouid on April 15, 2013 [–]

How so? An OOP language without inheritance would still be coupling code and data together "in unnatural ways". It is the object that is doing the coupling, not inheritance.

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