Functional Programming Patterns in Smalltalk

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  • lobster

    The Lobster Programming Language

  • Have you tried lobster[0]? I think it took a lot of inspiration from Smalltalk in how it handles closures and control structures, in that it tries to make function call syntax work like control structures[1].

    Actually, looking at it's design history[2] it took a lot of inspiration from a lot of languages before ending up where it is now (or maybe "where it's taking a break for now" is a better way of putting it). So it's no surprise that Van Oortmerssen tried to keep the best bits of every language he visited.

    [0] https://strlen.com/lobster/

    [1] https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/language_reference.html (scroll down to function calls)

    [2] https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/philosophy.html

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