Thank you :)... however, it should be said that the analogy was thought 
of by Gary Lui, a friend of mine.

Andres.

Noury Bouraqadi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the latest ESUG conference held in Amsterdam, I got Andrés' Book "A  
> Mentoring Course on Smalltalk". It's fun to read. An example is the  
> following quotation that I want to share with you.
>
> "Or let's say you would like to have lunch with a friend. In an  
> assembler or obfuscated C world, you would reach inside your friend's  
> mind and manipulate values and pointers until you made lunch appear  
> attractive. You might even tickle the stomach to get the appetite  
> going. But Smalltalk imposes much more civilized manners. In the same  
> way that your friend is not a struct{...}, objects are not allowed to  
> arbitrarily cross distinctions and mess with internal details.  
> Instead, objects must communicate by means of messages."
>
> Thanks Andrés!
> Noury Bouraqadi
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