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I wonder what things would be like today if the term "message oriented programming" had caught on instead.

• beamatronic 6y ago
  The message paradigm is interesting because it decouples the sending and receiving of the message from the mechanism that delivers the message. Sender and receiver could be on the same machine or around the world. The message could be processed in milliseconds or days. And so on.
• jugg1es 6y ago
  Until cloud computing became ubiquitous, there would be a lot of programmers complaining about the extra overhead in a native application. Messaging also requires a system to publish, serve and persist messages.