On 27/01/2009, at 11:12 PM, Piers Cawley wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Aaron Trevena <[email protected]
> wrote:
2009/1/26 Denny <[email protected]>:
Personally, I assumed he was referring to the strong 'use Moose'
push
which EPO seems to be on - would it be safe to say that Moose is a
modern approach to OO? I've not used it personally, and am looking
forward to the tech meet around the subject.
I think MOP (meta object protocol) is a modern approach to OO, it's
found in Perl 6, Badger, Mouse (and mouse? ferret ? I lose track..)
MOP is modern? The Art of The MetaObject Protocol was published in
1991. This is obviously some new usage of the word 'modern' with which
I was hitherto unfamiliar.
It's modern in perl terms, obviously, but it's not exactly new. It's
just been ignored by almost everyone who wasn't a lisp hacker for
years.
I think the modernists were at their peak in the 1920s, and the post-
modernists some time after the beat poets in the 1960s. The way that
compter science works as an academic discipline I guess that MOP might
get taught as a core computer science subject in universities in 2020
or so?
So you can take me down to the back paddock now ...
