From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1996/12/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206995845 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <5a0niaINNlda@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> <32C43AC8.24E2@sn.no> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5aa0eo$thd@krusty.irvine.com> adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes: > machines is that they execute one statement at a time, in order. Most > of the high-level languages I've seen do the same thing, whether or > not they're OO languages. Right. > It seems to me that if (as implied by earlier posts in this thread) > the "von Neumann" paradigm is the problem, then the solution is > something like Backus' FP or Prolog or Haskell or dataflow--not OO, Right. > which seems to me to have nothing to do with whether the von Neumann > model is being followed or not. Am I missing something? No, I think you have it surrounded. Procedural/"Von Neumann" is orthogonal to OO. As is declaritive (which is the correct counterpoint to procedural). /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com