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OOP is a construct of oppression installed by the burgoise (infosec.pub)
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[–] ZomieChicken@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Or do as Alan Kay wants and start calling it "Message-Oriented Programming".

"I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is "messaging"."

https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I skimmed that.

So you've got a bunch of message transceivers (aka objects). And the magic is in the message soup.

Yes?

[–] ZomieChicken@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

From my understanding, yes. Personally, I've seen so many different definitions of "OOP" (most of which were incoherent), I developed my own definition of what an 'object' is, and just go on with life.

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