Tu voulais une banane et tu récupères le gorille qui tient la banane et le reste de la jungle

Joe Armstrong au sujet du manque de réutilisation de code qui selon lui vient des langages orientés objet

Seibel: So you started out saying software reuse is “appallingly bad,” but opening up every black box and fiddling with it all hardly seems like movement toward reusing software.

Armstrong: I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”

— Joe Armstrong, Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (2009) Peter Seibel , page 213