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How do objects fit into modern C++ (stl, policy-classes, functional) style?

I'm a bit confused so the question is a bit confusing. TL;dr: how to mix STL and OOP? From the comment to Best overview to modern C++ paradigms? and ...
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Is it fair to reduce OOP to mere hierarchical composition of data structures?

Meaning that OOP allows me to have data-trees, of arbitrary depth and breadth, with some leafs being functions (and those leafs would be called methods) ? Because everything else that people often ...
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Non-OOP languages advantages and good uses

I'm a C# developer, but I also know Java, JavaScript, XSLT, a little of C and Perl, e some other that I may have forgotten. Still, the paradigm I'm most familiar to is OOP. I have always thought ...
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Is my description of the actor model right?

If I understood, the actor model is just like the object model, but with a few differences: EVERY object spawns it's own separate thread and its not a problem even when you have thousands of ...
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Paradigms fit for UI programming

This is a more specific question (or actually two, but they are related) coming from the comments of OOP technology death where someone stated that OOP is not the right paradigm for GUI programming. ...
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I've learned so much about OO programming I have no idea how to write procedural code. What's a good way to learn?

When I learned to program, I learned Object Oriented Programming very early on. For a while, I blundered around with my beautiful hammer, trying to use it for everything, partially because I had no ...
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Can you Improve your programming skills by learning other language paradigms?

If so, can you tell me how learning a new paradigm changed your approach for solving programming problems even if the problem is in another paradigm/language/technology? I will really appreciated If ...
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What language should you learn in order to learn “pure” OOP? [closed]

I would like to use a pure object oriented programming language to really learn what the paradigm is about. I'm not out to become an expert at such; mostly will I implement some small things with it ...
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What is Object Oriented Programming ill-suited for?

In Martin Fowler's book Refactoring, Fowler speaks of how when developers learn something new, they don't consider when it's inappropriate for the job: Ten years ago it was like that with objects. ...
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Is there a programming language with not a tree but tags idea behind OOP?

I'm thinking about tree structures, and I feel that I don't like them. It's like when you have a shop, then you try to put all products to tree-like catalog, and then you need to place one product to ...
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Which paradigm to use for writing chess engine?

If you were going to write a chess game engine, what programming paradigm would you use (OOP, procedural, etc) and why whould you choose it ? By chess engine, I mean the portion of a program that ...
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is OOP the dominant programming model in real world?

Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever In the VIEWPOINT section of Communications of The ACM, I found an interesting article entitled "Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever". It’s a radically different ...
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FP and OO orthogonal?

I have heard this time and again and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal. First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal ? FP encourages ...