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Alan Kay intended the emphasis in Smalltalk to be on the messaging, i.e. communication between objects, rather than the objects themselves: "The key in making g
by DonaldFisk 11y ago
Alan Kay intended the emphasis in Smalltalk to be on the messaging, i.e. communication between objects, rather than the objects themselves: "The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be."
From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging
- gnaritas 11y agoYes he did, but I'm not sure how that relates in any way to anything I said. His message idea were based on how cells communicate via messages in biology. Objects are cells. As I ran a popular Smalltalk blog for a few years, I'm well aware of Kay and the history of Smalltalk and his intentions about messaging.