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Why elixir is a procedural language?

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koushikuk

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Why elixir is a procedural language?

Why elixir is a procedural language when almost every programming language is adopting object oriented programming design pattern? Even Drupal 7 was a procedural language before. But now drupal 8 is full object oriented programming framework.

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rvirding

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Creator of Erlang

Just because they made a bad choice doesn’t mean we have to. :wink:

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kokolegorille

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I am not sure of this, and it looks like a joke on a functional language forum :slight_smile:

Also Elixir is a language, not a framework.

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NobbZ

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Elixir is “functional”, not “procedural”. So I do not get your question…

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