Fad Oriented Programming

Is it time to declare object orientation officially over and allow functional programming to take the crown as the latest fad?

Also, do you think logical programming will be next? Maybe I should brush up on my Prolog.

I was with >>51 since the beginning, but the discussion got me curious, so I ran a test in sbcl. I don't know what the common lisp spec dictates, but sbcl isn't a lisp by our standards either. #() notation actually expands to a vector at the syntax level. I always thought it created the list, (vector ...). None of the built in syntax in common lisp expects a vector, but you could write macros that expect vectors as arguments and supply them with #().

* (defmacro form-is-list-p (form) (listp form))

FORM-IS-LIST-P
* (form-is-list-p (test))

T
* (form-is-list-p ())

T
* (form-is-list-p 8)

NIL
* (form-is-list-p (vector 1 2 3))

T
* (form-is-list-p #(1 2 3))

NIL