Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-14 Thread Brown, John Mickey
From: Jeff Gonis jeff.go...@gmail.commailto:jeff.go...@gmail.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.commailto:alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.orgmailto:fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Thiago Silva
: Jeff Gonis jeff.go...@gmail.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented I see no one has taken Alan's bait and asked the million

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Jeff Gonis wrote: I see no one has taken Alan's bait and asked the million dollar question: if you decided that messaging is no longer the right path for scaling, what approach are you currently using? Classical computation doesn't allow storing

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Alan Kay
...@leitl.org To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:11 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Jeff Gonis wrote: I see no one has taken Alan's bait and asked the million dollar

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Alan Kay
, Alan From: Jeff Gonis jeff.go...@gmail.com To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com Cc: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented I see no one

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread David Harris
:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Hello, as I was thinking over these problems today, here are some initial thoughts, just to get the conversation going... The first time I read about the Method Finder and Ted's memo, I

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Rusty Mellinger
...@telus.net To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com; Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented This sounds suspiciously like Unit Testing, which is basically When I say this, you should

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread John Carlson
-- *From:* Thiago Silva tsi...@sourcecraft.info tsi...@sourcecraft.info *To:* fonc fonc@vpri.org fonc@vpri.org *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Hello, as I was thinking over these problems

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Barry Jay
*From:* Thiago Silva tsi...@sourcecraft.info mailto:tsi...@sourcecraft.info *To:* fonc fonc@vpri.org mailto:fonc@vpri.org *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread John Carlson
Silva tsi...@sourcecraft.info tsi...@sourcecraft.info *To:* fonc fonc@vpri.org fonc@vpri.org *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Hello, as I was thinking over these problems today, here are some initial thoughts

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-13 Thread Alan Kay
, 2013 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Hello, as I was thinking over these problems today, here are some initial thoughts, just to get the conversation going... The first time I read about the Method Finder and Ted's memo, I tried to grasp the broader

[fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Loup Vaillant
This question was prompted by a quote by Joe Armstrong about OOP[1]. It is for Alan Kay, but I'm totally fine with a relevant link. Also, I don't know and I don't have time for this are perfectly okay. Alan, when the term Object oriented you coined has been hijacked by Java and Co, you made

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Alan Kay
to get needed resources from the outside needed to be invented. Cheers, Alan From: Loup Vaillant l...@loup-vaillant.fr To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:15 AM Subject: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Brown, John Mickey
[mailto:fonc-boun...@vpri.org] On Behalf Of Alan Kay Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:23 AM To: Fundamentals of New Computing Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Hi Loup I think how this happened has already been described in The Early History of Smalltalk

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Loup Vaillant
Alan Kay a écrit : Hi Loup I think how this happened has already been described in The Early History of Smalltalk. But [Incredibly detailed and thoughtful response] Whoa. Thank you. Loup ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Göran Krampe
Hi! On 02/12/2013 04:15 PM, Loup Vaillant wrote: This question was prompted by a quote by Joe Armstrong about OOP[1]. Sidenote, the article Joe wrote on OO which I subsequently bashed: http://goran.krampe.se/2009/06/26/joe-is-wrong/ ...but I met him later and he knows OO quite well these

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Alan Kay wrote: A little more history ... The first Smalltalk (-72) was modern (as used below), and similar to Erlang in several ways -- for example, messages were received with structure and pattern matching, etc. The language was extended using the same mechanisms ... Alan, As I recall,

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Alan Kay
: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Independently of the originally-directed historical intent, I'll pose my own quick perspective. Perhaps a contrast with Steve Yegge's Kingdom of Nouns essay would help: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Alan Kay
Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net To: Fundamentals of New Computing fonc@vpri.org Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Alan Kay wrote: A little more history ... The first Smalltalk (-72) was modern (as used below

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
11:05 AM *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented Alan Kay wrote: A little more history ... The first Smalltalk (-72) was modern (as used below), and similar to Erlang in several ways -- for example, messages were received

Re: [fonc] Terminology: Object Oriented vs Message Oriented

2013-02-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Carlson wrote: Is there a computer language (yes I realize games do this) that work like human languages? With features like misdirection, misinterpretation, volume, persuasion? Can we come up with a social language for computers? No, I'm not talking lojban, I'm talking something