Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

"David Cressey" <dcressey_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:iBYag.4589$a23.4395_at_trndny01...

> The programming language also needs a highly developed process model at
its
> core. The object oriented process model provides a good starting place.

> Here's where I would start:

> Since the time OOP became popular, the design and construction of objects
> has been revolutionized. But OOP depends on two fundamental concepts, not
> just one. In an object oriented world, there are objects, and there are
> messages. The messaging scheme of languages ranging from Smalltalk to
Java
> is woefully inadequate.

>There has been almost no fundamental advance here
> in 30 years.

I'm not so sure about that.

> In order to build on the successes that OOP has acheived, the messaging
> scheme is going to have to go through a profound shift. When people get
> around to building a better messaging scheme, they will discover that the
> fundamental question is: how can objects share data coherently?

By quantum communication. By telepathy. Who knows.

> This turns out to be the same question that database theory began working
> on, back in 1970, when Codd published. It's in a different guise, but
it's
> the same question.

I've read somewhere that OOP is about isolation (sharing ?). Received on Thu May 18 2006 - 14:12:03 CEST