On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:14:08PM -0700, Christopher Smith wrote: > (indeed, upon reflection, Alan Kay thinks he should have > called it "message oriented programming" rather than "object oriented > programming"). Perhaps "every message has a receiver" might be more > accurate.
IMHO the essense of OOP is organizing related functions and data into distinct units. We call these data-function blobs "objects". I'm not sure calling it "message oriented programming" emphasizes this idea of data-function blobs. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
