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Hi,

Am 17.11.2003 um 06:17 schrieb Alan Kay:

> Hi Rob --
>
> At 6:58 PM -0800 11/16/03, Rob Withers wrote:
>> Alan, your hint did the trick.  I keep forgetting that
>> Smalltalk is based on the simpliest of ideas.  We have
>> objects and messages.
>
> Actually objects and message-sending (since messages are also objects) 
> ....
>
>>   If objects have no "state",
>> only references to other objects, then it's all
>> messages.
>
> It's worthwhile contemplating that most bits in computers are dynamic 
> relations between processes, so "state" is really a kind of process 
> .... Quite a few of the ideas in Special Relativity on "how one knows 
> about things going on" apply to these ideas.
>

That's exactly the point I don't understand and to which I want to 
think about. ... For me it sound's like a more as a definition than a  
experience....but I don't force the start the discussion again from the 
very beginning

Greetings

Hans

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