[REBOL] Re: function to object?
From: jason:cunliffe:verizon at: 5-Nov-2003 18:26
Thanks for that wonderful post -- all of it !
- Jason
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From: "Joel Neely" <[joel--neely--fedex--com]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: function to object?
-- snip--
> A collegue once described to me his moment of enlightenment when a
> professor had drawn on the blackboard a table showing relationships
> between some functions and data structures, something like:
>
> |Fn0|Fn1|...|Fnx|
> ---+---+---+---+---+
> DS0| * | * | | * |
> ---+---+---+ +---+
> DS1| | * | | |
> ---+---+---+ +---+
> ...| |
> ---+---+---+ +---+
> DSy| * | | | * |
> ---+---+---+---+---+
>
> and then remarked offhandedly, "If you slice it vertically, you have
> functional programming; if you slice it horizontally, you have object-
> oriented programming."
--snip--
