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Re:Embedding Objective-Smalltalk by dep_b on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:44AM (#23189879)
It looks a lot like functional code actually. I used to do this stuff with F# and Elixir. Arrows are quite effective to point out where the data is going.
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Re:Embedding Objective-Smalltalk by mpweiher on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:43PM (#23194227)
Yeah, this is mostly OO code, and good OO code tends to be not all that dissimilar to good FP code.

You might find Gilad Bracha's talk interesting:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons/

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