[Newbies] Re: Smalltalk Data Structures and Algorithms
K. K. Subramaniam
subbukk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 11:11:22 UTC 2009
On Monday 29 Jun 2009 3:27:30 pm Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
> Fascinating. So an object is an abstract representation of a gene,
> rather than a blueprint for a computational process.... This is a
> revelation.
"In computer terms, Smalltalk is a recursion on the notion of computer itself.
Instead of dividing "computer stuff" into things each less strong than the
whole--like data structures, procedures, and functions which are the usual
paraphernalia of programming languages--each Smalltalk object is a recursion
on the entire possibilities of the computer. " Alan Kay
http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Introduction.html
An image is a like an Internet in a single bag of bits. You have all these
tiny 'computers' exchanging messages with each other all the time to get 'work
done'. Once Alan expressed regret for introducing the term 'object-oriented
programming' because it downplayed the role of messages. Oops :-)!
Subbu
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