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<div>Gary --</div>
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<div>At 2:37 AM +0000 11/18/01, Gary McGovern wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font size="-1">On the 9th October
2001</font></tt></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font size="-1">Alan Kay
wrote:</font></tt></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>>However, I'm not an exclusivist. I
think people should be able to run<br>
> anything they need side by side and interoperably on their
computers<br>
> regardless of where they came from. That was one of the main
points<br>
> behind my particular conception of OOP (and how it would<br>
> isomorphically relate to the ARPAnet) back in the 60s.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font size="-1">Does anyone know if
OOP being isomorphic to the ARPANET would mean that an object would be
like a node in a network ?</font></tt></blockquote>
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That was one of the motivations ...<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font size="-1">If so would that mean
ideally, objects should follow the distributed network model devised
by Paul Baran and have redundancy in their interconnections ? And,
ideally, should messages be broken down into message blocks all
travelling along different paths to their destination
?</font></tt></blockquote>
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<div>No. The analogy did not extend to implementation details.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><tt><font size="-1">As ARPANET evolved
into the Internet by means of an additional protocol layer, does that
mean ideally that OOP should have an additional protocol layer
isomorphic to TCP/IP so that objects from different languages can work
together ?</font></tt></blockquote>
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<div>Yes. That was one of the (philosophical) intents for that
vintage. This is still a good idea, but most of the attempts so far
(like CORBA) have been too heavy and hamfisted. One of these days
......</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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