[plt-scheme] Re: How difficult would creating a collaborative multi-user online virtual world application be in PLT Scheme?

Thank you.

Those slides are quite interesting....  In particular, there seem to
be quite a few similarities in issues between functional and
object-oriented programming.

In particular, the following quote by Alan Kay on the elimination of
assignment being one motivation for OOP is of particular note:

>Though OOP came from many
>motivations, two were central.
>... [T]he small scale one was to
>find a more flexible version
>of assignment, and then to
>try to eliminate it altogether.
>
>Alan Kay,
>History of Smalltalk (1993)

The quotes on favoring immutability by Joshua Bloch, and on using
value objects whenever possible by Kent Beck, also seem to be similar
to topics that come up in functional programming.

-- Benjamin L. Russell

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:25:51 -0500, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

>"Functional Objects"
>
>On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Benjamin
>L.Russell<DekuDekuplex at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:40:47 -0700, John Clements
>> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
>>>
>>>Smalltalk is the "real" OO (cf. Matthias' talk),
>>
>> [Sorry, but somehow the above line was not quoted properly in my
>> previous message, so I am resending this message as a correction.]
>>
>> Incidentally, which talk are you referring to? ?I just checked his Web
>> site (at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/presentations.html), and
>> he has at least twenty-two presentations listed.
>>
>> -- Benjamin L. Russell
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