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by grumpyprole 1518 days ago
The .NET RX Observable streams where designed by Erik Meijer the author of this paper. The GOF book came up with the "Observer" pattern, but failed to spot and exploit the duality with iterators. RX and LINQ both take ideas from functional programming.
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> The GOF book came up with the "Observer" pattern, but failed to spot and exploit the duality with iterators.

That's an interesting insight - thanks