The biological cell (was: Erlang)
Diego Gomez Deck
DiegoGomezDeck at ConsultAr.com
Sat Nov 15 09:21:41 UTC 2003
Hi Hans,
> Hi,
>
> from the perspective of modeling in computer science, is there a
> difference between the statements
>
> 1) a biological cell IS a process
>
> 2) a biological cell HAS processes
>
> (related to the discussion if objects could been seen as processes) ?
Without entering in a discussion if processes exists or not in cells the
point here is: We don't care.
If the cell/object is/has zero, one or many processes is not important
at all. The contract is: "I ask for something -> I get an answer" and
how the receiver solve the requirement is part of its "private" stuff.
I find the things related to processes as a part of the receiver's
implementation details.
One problem I see in the current receiver/message model in Smalltalk is:
The receiver is so hard-coded.
We always have an explicit receiver. A type of "message in a bottle"
(without an explicit receiver) is something to experiment. A message
without an explicit receiver can different answers from different
receivers (did you try to shout in a place full os people ;))
> Greetings
>
> Hans
Cheers,
--
Diego Gomez Deck
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