>From my limited experience I see it this way:

Mathematical computations, algorithms, interfacing
(complicated data conversions), text translations,
parsing, anything which can be well represented by
dataflow diagrams and where there is no changing state
==> 
use FP

User interfaces, business systems, anything with
objects which have changing states and which react to
events and interact with each other ==> use OOP

Martin

--- Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:39:28PM -0400,
> Christopher A. Watford wrote:
> [...] 
> > This list is best for asking OCaml questions and
> is awful for asking
> > for what language is best for what, nobody agrees.
> [...] 
> 
> 
> I was not asking, what language is better for
> soimething, or best at all.
> I asked for what programming style/paradigm is best
> used to solve
> certain problems.
> 
> As OCaml provides more than one programming
> paradigm, for me
> it's the best language I ever had programmed in
> (some
> other features are also fine).
> 
> So the question goes in a different direction:
>   How to solve problems best, if you have the
> possibility
>   do do it in different ways.
> 
> Well, every programmer can choose it's own way, but
> if certain areas
> are well known to do them in a certain way best, it 
> makes sense
> to go that direction.
> 
> For example, I'm not really a fan of OO-programming,
> but when
> programming GUI-software I think it would be the
> best choice,
> and FP-programming lacks flexibility here (if not
> using
> a DSL to create GUI-code, which then is separately
> compiled).
> 
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
> 
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