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I'm not familiar with Julia, but from a Common Lisp perspective it is very natural to closely link OO and function dispatch. Generic functions were added to lis
by eoi 12y ago
I'm not familiar with Julia, but from a Common Lisp perspective it is very natural to closely link OO and function dispatch. Generic functions were added to lisp as part of its object system and make up a large part of it.
- craigching 12y agoIndeed! My first OO course at the University of Minnesota (1992 or so) was object-oriented programming using Scheme (using SICP). I was more of a C++ programmer at the time and the different perspective was eye opening for me!