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He seems to be describing what Alan Kay intended objects to be.
by discreteevent 11y ago
He seems to be describing what Alan Kay intended objects to be.
- Jtsummers 11y agohttp://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop I swear I had another source, but yes. He has said that he views Erlang as OO in the Alan Kay sense. Which, honestly, was my first thought when I tried Erlang. Each process is, essentially, a concurrent closure, and closures (in the functional language world) are the poor man's objects [1]. [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent