Marcel, it might help non-language design experts like me to wrap their head around Objective-S and the notion that "OO call/return, pipes & filters, REST and event broadcast" are just (higher-order?) styles that can be implemented in a truly general purpose language (i.e. Objective-S) by providing concrete examples of how Objective-S does this and other presumably-general-purpose-but-not-actually-according-to-you do not?
Is functional programming yet another style, or is it a subset of call/return, or a subset of pipes & filters? If it is its own style, how might Objective-S implement this style? What would map-reduce look like? What about higher order functions and currying?
Or is Objective-S itself at root a functional language? You've said very categorically in another comment that Objective-S is NOT just reinventing Lisp. Can you explain?
Perhaps my questions don't make any sense. As I said, I'm no meta-language expert.
Is functional programming yet another style, or is it a subset of call/return, or a subset of pipes & filters? If it is its own style, how might Objective-S implement this style? What would map-reduce look like? What about higher order functions and currying?
Or is Objective-S itself at root a functional language? You've said very categorically in another comment that Objective-S is NOT just reinventing Lisp. Can you explain?
Perhaps my questions don't make any sense. As I said, I'm no meta-language expert.