Dogmatic paradigmatism

First, you put all of your faith in structured programming, and you got burned. You found it hard to associate the operations in your software with the data upon which they act, and to make sure that the expectations made on the data in one place are satisfied when that data has been modified in that other place, or over there in yet another place. Clearly structured programming is broken.

Then, you put all of your faith in object-oriented programming, and you got burned. You found it hard to follow the flow of a program when it jumps in and out of different classes, and to see which parts were coupled to what. Clearly object-oriented programming is broken.

Then, you put all of your faith in functional programming, and you got burned. You found it hard to represent real business processes in terms of immutable data structures and pure functions, and to express changes to the operating environment without using side effects. Clearly functional programming is broken.

Or maybe it’s you. Maybe, rather than relying on faith to make these conceptual thought frameworks do what you need from them, you could have thought about the concepts.