Hi Hans --

What are biological cells?

Whose/what theory of objects are you using?

Cheers,

Alan

At 8:17 PM +0100 11/9/03, Hans Nikolaus Beck wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>
>>At 11:53 AM +0000 9/29/03, Blaine Buxton wrote:
>>>Hey,
>>>I've been reading up on Erlang myself. They have an approach where 
>>>everything is a process and you send messages to these processes.
>>
>>This was the approach of the original Smalltalk. It is also used by 
>>David Reed in the object-process scheme in Croquet (back to the 
>>future!).
>
>Whow could objects be processes ?For me objects represent a certain 
>state. Their methods are rules how to make a transition to another 
>state. But processes have no state in that sence that they are a 
>chain of infinitesimal transitions.  From this theoretical point of 
>view, a "process" in a system of objects (i.e. a loop) is not a 
>process, only a quick sequence of transitions......
>
>Where is my error in logic ?
>
>Greetings
>
>Hans


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