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> "If this sounds to you a lot like Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), you are right." This sounds like Alan Kay's aspirational viewpoint of independent "compu

> "If this sounds to you a lot like Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), you are right." This sounds like Alan Kay's aspirational viewpoint of independent "computers" interacting through messages. Not the object-orientation invented by Nygaard and Dahl in Simula, that introduced objects, classes, subclassing and virtual functions. Kay's vision is not reflected in modern object-oriented languages, while Nygard and Dahl's remain paramount. The argument that the Actor Model is really a form of object-oriented programming is an unrequired appeal to credibility. Edit: grammar

xsmasher 9y ago
Objective-C has the message-passing approach to object-oriented programming; all dispatch was at run-time, and an object could delegate any unrecognized messages or decide for itself how to respond to them. I suppose it's not "modern" anymore though - and it doesn't look like swift kept this paradigm.
- bsaul 9y ago
  ironically, swift is aiming at implementing actor concurrency for its next versions (even adding an "actor" keyword).