Programming Pioneer Grady Booch on Functional Programming, Web3, and Conscious Machines

InfoWorld interviews Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research (who is also a pioneer in design patterns, agile methods, and one of the creators of UML).Here's some of the highlights:
Q: Let me begin by asking something "of the moment." There has been an almost cultural war between object-oriented programming and functional programming. What is your take on this?
Booch: I had the opportunity to conduct an oral history with John Backus — one of the pioneers of fu