What’s Wrong with OOP and FP

[bearophile]

Ary Borenszweig:

> It isn't just a feeling :)

Researchers are mostly judged and paid (and career advancements 
are mostly based) on the amount and "impact" of papers written. 
It's uncommon for "how ideas work in production code" to have a 
positive influence on career. To this you have to add the fact 
that if they pay you to study and invent new ideas, and you want 
to have fun inventing them, you will go look where are the cutest 
puzzles to solve (like very complex functional tricks).

This is causing a bad and costly disconnect between practice and 
research in computer science and coding, and this is hurting our 
society. Even researchers in the private sector like at Microsoft 
are plagued with a very low ROI because of that.

To solve this problem there is a growing need to tie the career 
advancements and pay of computer science researchers to the 
solution of practical problems. I love free basic research, but 
here there is a growing problem in need to be solved, for the 
society.

The situation is improving only a little, but this far from 
enough:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/17/the-journal-science-free-the-code/

Bye,
bearophile