OO or FP easier for beginners

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The other thing about OO that causes problems for me is the class hierarchies. It would take so much effort to go up the chain of classes trying to find where a particular method was actually defined. A lot of OO programmers will be like “you’re not supposed to do it that way though” and that’s totally fine if you already understand programming concepts, but not if you’re trying to learn.

That’s because the claimed OO languages with their classes and methods are imposters and not actually object oriented.

A famous Joe Armstrong quote seems apt:

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.

Joe provides some pretty good definitons on this forum on why Erlang languages are the only real OO languages:

The OOP Concept according to Erlang

To me an OOPL has the following properties: Isolated objects (= Erlang processes) - if one process can in any way damage another object then you cannot write decent code Polymorphic (example you could send a “print_yourself” message to any process and it would know how to deal with it - this makes life easy for the the programmer) - Late binding (You can send a message to a process, and send code to a process, provided the code gets their first, everything is fine) Dynamic (possible…

So I wouldn’t hate too hard on real object oriented programming as that is actually what Elixir on the BEAM is.