C++ doesn’t encourage functional programming, but it doesn’t prevent you from doing it, and you retain the power to drop down and apply SIMD intrinsics to hand laid out data backed by memory ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

While it might be acceptable to mutate a member variable in procedural or object-oriented programming, in functional programming it's frowned upon to change the state of a variable outside the scope ...

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming. That is misleading as these approaches are not mutually exclusive and ...

Programming paradigms come and go, however, and there’s no reason to think that functional programming will fully displace object-oriented programming any more than object-oriented programming ...

C++ is what Ernst called a “multiple paradigm language,” one able to support multiple programming models. So it supports functional programming as easily as it does as object oriented programming.

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

Newer programming languages such as Scala, Go, Julia, Clojure and Rust have many functional attributes, and the latest versions of Java and C++ also offer support for functional constructs.

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.