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by techadv
4359 days ago
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The page you link seems to indicate that Kay didn't propose this as a definitive definition of OOP, but rather as a description of the defining features of Smalltalk. I'm not familiar with the document; do you have any insight? |
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"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
If you read this email, you will see that what he had in mind was much more than a way of programming. It was a model of computation where the computer is a networks of "cells" exchanging messages.