While i agree with guy's bashing on HTTP, the second part of his talk is complete bullshit.
He mentions a kind of 'signal processing' paradigm, but we already have it: message passing. Before i learned smalltalk, i was also thinking that OOP is about structures and hierarchies, inheritance.. and all this private/public/etc etc bullshit.. After i learned smalltalk , i know that OOP it is about message passing. Just it. Period. And no other implications: the hierarchies and structures is implementation specific, i.e. it is a way how an object handles the message, but it can be completely arbitrary. I think that indeed, it is a big industry's fault being unable to grasp simple and basic idea of message passing and replace it with horrible crutches with tons of additional concepts, which makes it hard for people to learn (and therefore be effective with OOP programming). -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
