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> …the vision is completely opposed to the concept of encapsulation… Why do you think that? p.286 Design Principles Behind Smalltalk [author Daniel H H ingall

• jecel 8y ago
  To reinforce your point: Alan Kay majored in both Computer Science and Molecular Biology and the cell membrane was a significant inspiration for objects. It completely isolates the inner chemical functions from the rest of the world. So encapsulation was the first thing Alan worried about.
• bsaul 8y ago
  I’m not talking about smalltalk’s vision as a programming language but rather the operating system exposing the source of every component in read / write mode.
  • igouy 8y ago
    That is not what you wrote.