Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998)
by arethuza on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:16AM
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My own personal view is:
- function calls: single recipient, return values, synchronous
- messaging: publish & subscribe, no return value, asynchronous
Also - using pure message passing "inside" a component is kind of painful, using pure function calls between components can be painful. Of course, this depends on your definition of "component"....
- function calls: single recipient, return values, synchronous
- messaging: publish & subscribe, no return value, asynchronous
Also - using pure message passing "inside" a component is kind of painful, using pure function calls between components can be painful. Of course, this depends on your definition of "component"....