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<div>Thanks for the thought provoking questions. Good food for thought on a holiday weekend (Independence day here in the USA).</div>
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I think the essence of messaging between objects is that individual objects are responsible for determining how they respond to the messages they receive from other objects. Can they, for example, use the information they receive in a message to behave in a
way that was not pre-determined? There is an implication that messages are objects themselves (capable of sending and receiving messages). But is this "late binding" property a requirement for object-orentation? It probably comes down to semantics in the end.
Hence the debate about the "object-oriented" nature of Swift vs Objective-C and the inclusion / exclusion of message passing in Swift:
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<div>Implementing some of examples outlined there (mock objects, swizzling, remote methods, run-time meta-programming etc) in various languages would be examples of experiments for for Martians I would think. The implementations would have to be subjectively
compared though, bringing us back to your question about this all being in our minds. </div>
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<div>Perhaps OO is in the mind of the beholder after all. </div>
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<div>On Jul 3, 2016, at 1:39 AM, David Ungar ungar@me.com [self-interest] wrote:</div>
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<div>My pleasure. Your viewpoint raises the question: "What is the essence of messaging between objects?" How would you explain it? What experiment could a Martian do to distinguish OO from non-OO? Or is it all in the mind?</div>
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<div>Thanks very much for your insightful response. I am a huge fan of Mark Miller's work as well, and my admiration and for respect for your work goes without saying, of course. (But I will say it anyway, you are awesome :) </div>
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<div>I concur with your point about the deep differences that arise in object orient programing systems based their underlying paradigm. But to me, the fundamental idea that makes all the paradigms related, at least to some degree, is the isight about messaging
between the objects being the essence, the heart if you will, of all the paradigms. The details can diverge from there with, to your point, far ranging effect, however.</div>
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<p>Yes, but I have a long-standing debate with Mark Miller, whom I respect beyond words. And a long-standing unease about trying to understand one paradigm in terms of another according to the sort of argument in this link.</p>
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<div class="">Here’s my canonical example: Back in the day, Schemers would tell me that Smalltalk blocks were just Scheme lambdas. Yet, in Smalltalk, every control structure uses blocks (and dynamic dispatch), while in Scheme cond is a primitive, even though
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