Indeed, here's a email from Alan Kay about how his perspective is about "messaging" between objects: https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/19

Indeed, here's a email from Alan Kay about how his perspective is about "messaging" between objects: https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998... (edit: derp, this is directly cited in TFA) Also, I loved this interview/discussion between Kay & Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, where the topic comes up again (because Erlang is also a lot about messaging between agents) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY