On: How does your programming language handle “minus z...

[andrewflnr]

Not disputing your other points, but functional programming is by most measures older than OOP. The FP hype now is definitely more a matter of rediscovering the wisdom of the past, and I think that's a good thing.

[abraae → andrewflnr]

That's an excellent point.

Although to go down that road, schemaless databases preceded RDBMS by decades, and then were replaced for good reasons.