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Comment by pjmlp

> functional programming features

What features?

Smalltalk-80 already had lambdas and LINQ, they were just called blocks and collection methods instead.

Pattern matching in OOP languages was a path pursued by BETA, Simula's successor by the same authors, where even classes are instances of patterns as concept.

parent pjmlp 6 years ago

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