Comment by tabtab

If agree. Our industry is subject to poorly-vetted fads. For example, a few years ago everyone was talking about functional programming and lambdas: the yet another newest "magic Legos". Most of the examples given to justify it were either unrealistic to the real world ("lab toys"), or could have been done with OOP if the OOP engine of the language were better. Lambda's were essentially patching bad OOP, per attaching behavior to objects. Now readers have to deal with 2 paradigms and syntaxes: FP and OOP, whereas if you fixed the lame OOP; they'd only have to deal with one. Sorry, the language did NOT need lambdas.