[Advocacy] Sun says object orientation has failed

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Jun 21 18:27:21 UTC 2002


Actually, in looking at ACE, it seems to be very object oriented. I 
think what they've discovered is that it is a good idea to build 
framework classes instead of just classes to imitate data structures 
in C. Maybe they are starting to "discover objects".

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:41 PM -0400 6/21/02, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
>Re: [Advocacy] Sun says object orientation has failed> But maybe they should
>actually try OOP before decided it doesn't work!
>
>     And maybe they need some time to find out what OO really is.
>
>     Let's hope they will get it (grabbing the moon instead of  the finger
>pointing to the moon :-)
>
>     Again, grabbing the finger is still nothing compared to diving into the
>lake to grab the moon :-)
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     PhiHo.


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