Alan Kay is regarded to have coined the term "object-oriented programming (OOP)" in the context of
his work while at PARC. He is being cited on Wikipedia:
I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because
it gets many people
to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is "messaging".[8]
Cf. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay#cite_ref-8>.
---rony
On 02.07.2022 20:55, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 02.07.2022 02:20, David Crayford wrote:
Thanks Rony. I really enjoyed reading that paper.
+1
Do you know why the tilde character was chosen as the message passing operator?
It's quite unusual.
Rick McGuire told me once that they were looking for a key that was not widely used and spotted
the tilde/twiddle.
---rony
P.S.: It may also be seen by others as a somewhat iconic symbol representing the message
flying/flapping to the object/receiver on the left hand side of the twiddle.
On 30/06/2022 6:55 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 30.06.2022 00:52, David Crayford wrote:
On 30/06/2022 6:37 am, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Gentle listers,
Can we all agree to let this discussion be resolved by agreeing to the Perl mongers motto,
TMTOWTD
TWTOWTD? Or maybe not. Show me how to create a secure socket in REXX without
using PAGENT.
You may want to check out the slides in
<https://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/wu/lehre/slides/BusinessProgramming/230_AutoJava_Sockets_V03.pdf> for a
simple solution with ooRexx.
---rony
P.S.: The above slides were used to teach non-programmers from the university's administration
who were interested to learn/see the concepts of programming. They were able to come up with
homework excercises exploiting secure sockets on their own.
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