I do not know if Alan Kay created the term object in the context of programming but he was a pioneer of OOP when created Smalltalk. These are few paragraphs where Kay is cited in relation to the term object and concept is explained.
https://www.yegor256.com/2017/12/12/alan-kay-was-wrong.html Felicidades para todos. On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > One can also have procedures bound to types where the procedures are > pure. > OOP does not imply methods that have privileged access to state, although > this is common with languages like C++ and Java. > In contrast, a method (or type bound procedure) can have privileged access > to the meaning of state when state is provided (as an argument). > Haskell basically requires this approach and Fortran 2008 facilitates it. > > On 7/17/18, 9:05 PM, "Friam on behalf of Russell Standish" < > friam-boun...@redfish.com on behalf of li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > Not sure about "utility"/"tool", but an object is distinguished from a > function by having state. Call an object's method, and the method's > scope is populated by the object's data members, which of course, > differ from object to object. > > By contrast a function either has no state (pure function), or its > state is global (same for every function invocation). > > Cheers > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:06:57PM -0400, Nick Thompson wrote: > > Dave, and anybody else who wants to play. > > > > > > > > I have always been puzzled by the question of how one distinguishes > an > > object in object programming from a utility in DOS or a tool in > Matlab. Or > > any mathematical function, for that matter. You give it what it > needs, and > > it gives you what it's supposed to, and you don't give a damn how it > works. > > > > > > > > Please don't yell at me. > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > > > Clark University > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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