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Re: New language
Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org> wrote in message
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> 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.
faa
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