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		technomancy on May 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why python? > Do people really disagree that huge, non-OO scripts were the dominant style back in the 1990's? I don't know python, but "OO changed all that" implies that data-centric approaches are somehow passé, to which I'd reply "yeah, but FP changed all that". Maybe they are in Python though.

rjbond3rd on May 23, 2011 [–]

I meant only to say that gigantic (untestable) scripts are passé at least for the language in question.

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