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Re: s-exprs + prototypes
On Mittwoch, Juni 25, 2003, at 05:52 Uhr, Steve Dekorte wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 09:19 AM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
>> Hey, you turned my analogy upside down and broke it! OK, bad
>> analogy. When
>> it comes to functions vs. objects, I see functions as atoms and
>> objects from
>> any given object model as a particular class of molecules, i.e. not
>> all
>> possible molecules.
>
> Why aren't objects atoms? (be careful that your answer is hardware
> neutral)
This whole discussion is bogus, because you are comparing apples and
oranges.
The object-oriented paradigm and the Lisp paradigm (so to speak) are
not comparable.
The object-oriented paradigm is deeply rooted in a very specific
perception of reality. It is essentially an understanding of reality as
instantiated in the physics of Newton and defended on a philosophical
level by Kant. The idea is that that the world is made of separate
entities that communicate solely via proximal effects. In OOP terms,
objects send messages to each other and each object can react to
messages in its own terms.
The Lisp paradigm is rooted in the belief that there is no single right
perception of reality. Instead, a language has to provide the building
blocks that allow you to reconstruct any perception of the world.
So what you are discussing is the question whether a single-paradigm
approach is preferable over a multi-paradigm approach, or vice versa.
These two views cannot be reconciled by definition. The proponent of a
single-paradigm approach thinks that he/she has found the right model
for any description of the real world whereas the multi-paradigm
proponent thinks that things can be so vastly different from instance
to instance that no single paradigm can ever be suitable to each and
every description of the world. [1]
Pascal
[1] These are descriptions of extreme points of views. Of course, there
are more mild options in between. For example, one can think that OO is
suitable in 90% of all the cases, so it's safe to opt for it.