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		tomp on July 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Impressions of Go In modern languages, you don't need to write a class when all you need is a first-class function.

pjmlp on July 23, 2013 [–]

Modern languages?! This has been possible since FORTRAN.

tomp on July 23, 2013 | [–]

And LISP, but not in Java... :(

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