OOP isomorphically relating ARPANET
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sun Nov 18 15:41:50 UTC 2001
Gary --
At 2:37 AM +0000 11/18/01, Gary McGovern wrote:
>On the 9th October 2001
>Alan Kay wrote:
>
> >However, I'm not an exclusivist. I think people should be able to run
>> anything they need side by side and interoperably on their computers
>> regardless of where they came from. That was one of the main points
>> behind my particular conception of OOP (and how it would
>> isomorphically relate to the ARPAnet) back in the 60s.
>
>Does anyone know if OOP being isomorphic to the ARPANET would mean
>that an object would be like a node in a network ?
That was one of the motivations ...
>
>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 ?
No. The analogy did not extend to implementation details.
>
>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 ?
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 ......
Cheers,
Alan
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