@topspin said in Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot:
@Zecc said in Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot:
and the guy who isn't sure.
Apropos of nothing in particular, I once read a short story that had a similar premise to Idiocracy: once upon a time, we were really good at making things, and making them to last. And so all the world's infrastructure systems lasted almost-forever... and there was no demand whatsoever for them once they'd been installed everywhere, so the companies that made them eventually went bankrupt.
The protagonist is a senior sewage worker: he's really good at interpreting the error codes the sewage system spits out, rebooting the system, cleaning a sensor, removing a blockage, etc. And then, one day, one of the machines he works with just goes completely dead, in the way that 100 years of poor maintenance on an excellent machine will eventually do. So the hero, being a clever person who cares about his job, tries to find someone to repair his machines. Any possible helpline for these nigh-invincible machines has long since closed, and in desperation, he finally just writes down the machine's specs and tries to research at the local library -- maybe he can learn how to fix it himself?
The punchline is that this is the first time the librarian has ever seen any member of the public enter the library. She's surprised and pleased and eager to help, but it's very clear that there is nobody in the world who can possibly fix any of these old, slowly-failing machines that are propping up what passes for civilization these days.