The biological cell (was: Erlang)
Hans Nikolaus Beck
HNBeck at t-online.de
Mon Nov 17 18:45:06 UTC 2003
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Hi,
Am 17.11.2003 um 06:17 schrieb Alan Kay:
> Hi Rob --
>
> At 6:58 PM -0800 11/16/03, Rob Withers wrote:
>> Alan, your hint did the trick. I keep forgetting that
>> Smalltalk is based on the simpliest of ideas. We have
>> objects and messages.
>
> Actually objects and message-sending (since messages are also objects)
> ....
>
>> If objects have no "state",
>> only references to other objects, then it's all
>> messages.
>
> It's worthwhile contemplating that most bits in computers are dynamic
> relations between processes, so "state" is really a kind of process
> .... Quite a few of the ideas in Special Relativity on "how one knows
> about things going on" apply to these ideas.
>
That's exactly the point I don't understand and to which I want to
think about. ... For me it sound's like a more as a definition than a
experience....but I don't force the start the discussion again from the
very beginning
Greetings
Hans
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