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Yes and no. Concurrency was still a problem that got short shrift. But the "overload doesNotUnderstand:, serialize the message and dispatch it over the network
by retrocryptid 4y ago
Yes and no. Concurrency was still a problem that got short shrift. But the "overload doesNotUnderstand:, serialize the message and dispatch it over the network" was a fun way to do rpc-ishness in Smalltalk and ObjC before people got hung up on writing IDLs. (Looking at you, CORBA)
I'm reminded of Larry Wall's quote: "languages differ not in what they make possible, but in what they make easy."
Smalltalk and ObjC made proxy objects easy.