I'd say people are uncooperative parallel automata.  :-)

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael S. Klein [SMTP:mklein at alumni.caltech.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, May 21, 1999 10:41 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Messaging vs. subroutines -- This is silly
> 
> > >A message send is a plymorphic selection, followed by a subroutine call
> > >to the appropriate method.
> > 
> > Does this mean that you couldn't have a distributed implementation of
> > Squeak where objects were people, methods were instructions for them to
> > follow, and messages were emails?
> > 
> Are people cooperating sequential processes or what?