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I was trying, clumsily, to bring to mind the differences between Smalltalk’s object/message model and the class/method model of Python, etc.
by leephillips 4y ago
I was trying, clumsily, to bring to mind the differences between Smalltalk’s object/message model and the class/method model of Python, etc.
- igouy 4y agoIn the first case, program + program changes; in the second case, program definitions. Smalltalk language implementations provide a prototype program and we make our software by making changes to that prototype — by sending messages to instantiated objects — not by writing definitions.