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A comment on Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998). Parent comment
> We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century.
Maybe it should be? Languages like Erlang and — to a much lesser extent — Go use message-passing semantics in at least some places.
To paraphrase Chesterton, message-passing has not been tried and found wanting; it's been found unusual and not tried.
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> We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century.
Maybe it should be? Languages like Erlang and — to a much lesser extent — Go use message-passing semantics in at least some places.
To paraphrase Chesterton, message-passing has not been tried and found wanting; it's been found unusual and not tried.