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Motivations for use have transmogrified from means to an end

However, in every single case — OOP, Agile, and now functional programming — the motivations for use have transmogrified from means to an end, to ends in themselves. This is a failing in the software industry and indeed one that points more to its pop-science facet than its computer-science underpinnings.

http://blog.fogus.me/2018/07/23/paperhouse/