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by mastazi 13y ago
Page 88: "In the local M.I.T. patois, association lists [of atomic symbols] are also referred to as "property lists", and atomic symbols are sometimes called "objects"."
This is often cited as the first known usage of the word "object" in computer science.
- mastazi 13y agoAlan Kay, one of the fathers of OOP, on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming”: "[...] The second phase of this was to finally understand LISP and then using this understanding to make much nicer and smaller and more powerful and more late bound understructures." http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
- pjmlp 13y agoYes, Smalltalk and Lisp do overlap quite a bit.