Hi, Thanks for your post.
On 17/12/17 08:44, vitalije wrote: > > I read all three parts and found it interesting, although it wasn't > > Thank you very much for your effort and feedback. > > > So I guess after reading both pieces I get your point more - avoid > constructing complex state to manage something that is essentially a > process. At least I think that's what your saying :) > > Yes, that's what I wished to say. > This conversation remembers me Programming Across Paradigms, by Anjana Vakil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3UeB-5FdA Now that functional programming is getting a new impulse, is interesting to see the continuum that this talk is proposing. Dealing with global state and a lot of intertwine in a mechanical clockwork alike fashion makes development complicated. Functional and Objects keeps state confined, the first in more aggressive way (i.e only in particular IO monad) and the second by keeping it inside small objects that communicate only through messages that makes easy to reason about state (at least in the Pharo/Smalltalk case). Its interesting how the talk invites us to use the proper paradigm to think about the problem, instead of looking everything from the same paradigm and force the problem to fit it, that I think shared Vitalije idea of avoiding complex state to model what is essentially a process (a core proposal of functional programming and the metaphor of the assembly line used by Anjana and Richard Hickey). In my case, despite of using exclusively Pharo now for my programming/modeling, I try to get as much inspiration as I can from other communities and paradigms (indie video gamers, clojure, music live coding, this community). I think that this broader panoramic and experience improves my coding, even despite of happening only inside Pharo, so thanks Vitalije and Terry for the talk :-). Cheers, Offray -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
