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Functional Programming and Object-Oriented Programming

Understand the similarities between functional programming and object-oriented programming in PHP. Learn how both paradigms emphasize concepts such as immutability, message passing, and encapsulation, and discover why the distinction between function-only and class-based code can be less important than their underlying principles.

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Similarities between OOP and FP

Some factors might lead you to believe that functional programming and object-oriented programming are fundamentally opposed. The reality, however, is that they’re closely related. Object-oriented programming, a term coined by Alan Kay, is a construct with many implicit functional programming ideas focused around ...