Re:Alan Kay and OO Programming
by carlmr on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:51AM
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There are actually two languages (aside from Smalltalk) I know that are very close to Alan Kay's idea of message passing objects (as I understand it). Those are elixir and erlang.
They're usually regarded as functional languages, but they have message passing actor model at their core. It might not be the best for everything, but they definitely are very good in their niche of embarassingly parallel computation.
They're usually regarded as functional languages, but they have message passing actor model at their core. It might not be the best for everything, but they definitely are very good in their niche of embarassingly parallel computation.