OK. Let's get back to some basic vocabulary: What is a table. For sure, it is thing. And for sure it is an object too. What is "the plan to build a table" Fo

OK. Let's get back to some basic vocabulary: What is a table. For sure, it is thing. And for sure it is an object too. What is "the plan to build a table" For sure it is something, hence it is a thing. But is it an object? Well, if the plan is printed on a piece of paper, then for sure it is an object. OTOH, if the plan for the table is in the head of some designer, then it is not an object, it's... an idea. So basically, you have two planes (at least), the "physical plane", where object lie, very tangible, very concreate, and the "idea plane" where ideas lie, very abstract. So, is 9 an object or and idea? In CS, things that lie in the "idea plan" are called "values". That's probably because we don't hold it (yet) that computers can have ideas ;) See also http://virteal.com/ObjectVersusValue http://virteal.com/ObjectVersusValue