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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

like it's sort of a microcosm of the entire conversation about 'what OOP really means' -- is it late-bound and receiver deciding what the message means, can you reflect and monkey-patch, is it inheritance and classes

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

i think i have a built-in respect for Objective-C just because it is both industrial-scale and successful and like… very weird, still very Smalltalk, very not like the other big industrial systems languages (C, C++, Java). i respect outliers like that

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Omar Rizwan . @omar,

and Swift is a bit disappointing because it is really not weird in comparison, it feels like a cousin of Rust and Scala and lots of other successful languages in our era

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