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A comment on Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003). Parent comment

Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:26PM (#19417464)
People call Objective C and Ruby message passing, but they have return values.

Nobody's definitions here seem consistent or applicable to implemented systems! Crazy how much a well-known idea can be so hard to pin down.

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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by pjmlp on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:43AM (#19419112)
Smalltalk messages also return values.
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