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Unfortunately, the article did not have what I think is the best Joe Armstrong quote on OOP.

Here it is as quoted in:

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/19/you-wanted-banana/

>I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not functional languages. Because 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.



Thanks, this added extra insight for me




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