Alan Kay on the meaning of "object oriented"

[Tom Locke <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't know that Alan Kay originally coined the term "object  
oriented programming". It seems he was *very* close to our way of  
thinking back in those early days (late 60's).

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- I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual
computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages (so
messaging came at the very beginning -- it took a while to see how to
do messaging in a programming language efficiently enough to be
useful).
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Too bad it went so wrong

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht24Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

Tom