David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I care about functional principles when they help me in these isolated cases where that's just better than everything else.

But at heart, I'm an object-oriented guy.

That's just how I think about programs.

That's how I like to think about programs.

That's how I carve up a big problem space into a domain language.

Objects are my jam.

I really should pick up a language like that at some point.

I've been programming long enough that it's a little embarrassing that I haven't actually done anything real in anger in a fully functionally programmed language.

Yes.

And that's my problem, too.

I just, I don't care as much about these low-level problems in computer science.

I care about the high level.

I care about writing software.

I care about the...

abstraction layer that really floats well with web applications and business logic.

And I've come to accept that about myself, even though, as we talked about when I was a kid, I really wanted to become a games programmer.

And then I saw what it took to write a collision detection engine.

And I go like, yeah, that's not me at all.

I'm never going to be into vector matrix manipulation or any of that stuff.

It's way too much math.