Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!cca From: cca@pur-phy.UUCP (Allen) Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.st80 Subject: Re: What is Object-Oriented Message-ID: <1631@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 20:26:42 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1631 Posted: Sun Feb 10 20:26:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:16:21 EST References: <3013@umcp-cs.UUCP> <117@tove.UUCP> Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.lang:1416 net.lang.st80:187 I just can't resist any longer. Here's a quote from Dan Ingalls "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" article in the August '81 Byte: "... Smalltalk provides a much cleaner solution: it sends the name of the desired operation, along with any arguments, as a message ... with the understanding that the receiver knows best how to carry out the desired operation. Instead of a bit-grinding processor raping and plundering data structures, we have a universe of well-behaved objects that courteously ask each other to carry out their various desires." Alas, it's back to raping and plundering for me, lacking a Smalltalk machine.... Charlie Allen ..pur-ee!pur-phy!cca