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From: cca@pur-phy.UUCP (Allen)
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Subject: Re: What is Object-Oriented
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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