[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Yeah, but the difference between you and Alan Kay, is that he coined the
term. ;-)
--Chris
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