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I believe Erlang/Elixir are closer to what he had in mind. (Processes with encapsulated state passing messages to each other.)
by vendiddy 3y ago
I believe Erlang/Elixir are closer to what he had in mind. (Processes
with encapsulated state passing messages to each other.)
- freetonik 3y agoAnd also Smalltalk, I believe. It appeared ~15 years earlier than Erlang. The idea of holding encapsulated state and receiving messages is its core concept, AFAIK.
- kragen 3y agoguess who headed the smalltalk team and what team he was working on when he invented the term 'object-oriented'
- frou_dh 3y agoIt does make a lot more sense if messaging is asynchronous, because the metaphor breaks down immediately if sending any message requires the sender to freeze until a reply comes back.