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arethuza on June 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming...

I've felt for a long time that the tendency to equate "sending a message" and "calling a function/method" has caused a lot of problems - one is more like IPC/RPC and the other is something that happens within the local context (process/thread/etc.).

pacala on June 7, 2011 [–]

sending a message = piping

sending a message with callback = continuation passing style

arethuza on June 7, 2011 | [–]

I think the Transputer/Occam and Google Go have a better approach where they were influenced by Hoare's CSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces...

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