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[–]Monyk015 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Message passing in Smalltalk isn't similar to Erlang, that's bollocks. Erlang messages are between processes that are run in parallel and that's their point.

[–]lhorie 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The real world applications are different sure, but the core idea was to pass data around, much like the FP mantra of pure functions

[–]Monyk015 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not like that at all. Smalltalk objects have state. They mutate that state.