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> "In Smalltalk, everything happens somewhere else." - Adele Goldberg

Am I the only one that thinks this sounds like a maintenance nightmare?

I don't understand how this could ever be a good thing.



It can be beneficial for maintenance as it helps avoid overly-large methods and monolith objects.


Might be, but (regarding ruby) not if your codebase is designed[1] and not grown. Saudi Metz does an extremely good job at explain how to use 'single responsibility' to make even huge codebases maintainable.

I believe the same is be true for smalltalk and any OO language.

[1] http://poodr.com


Have you tried using Smalltalk?




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