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Re: New language
On Fri, 12 May 2000 00:15:03 -0400 (EDT), "Frank A. Adrian"
<fadrian@uswest.net> wrote:
> Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org> wrote in message
> m31vib5fzl.fsf@soma.andreas.org">news:m31vib5fzl.fsf@soma.andreas.org...
> > pohanl@my-deja.com writes:
> >
> > > Then someone comes along and says, hey, why not package multiple
> > > functions
> > > and data into a structure. And that is how classes got started (which
> > > lead to object oriented languages like C and java). Now when you
> >
> > This might be what it looks like to the causual observer, but in fact,
> > as proven by Common Lisp and Dylan, is not what object-oriented
> > programming is all about.
> >
> > Rather, the interesting aspects are abstraction through type
> > hierarchies, and through polymorphic functions.
>
> Also, the "system bus" idea looks a lot like the work on the Linda system by
> Gelerntner, et al. from a few years back.
BTW the "system bus" idea is back in Sun's JavaSpaces that are part of JINI:
http://java.sun.com/products/javaspaces/
__Jason
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