[488] in Humor
HUMOR: Know your pundits!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Oct 11 10:09:18 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:06:25 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 09:42:32 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
Forwarded-by: Wendell Craig Baker <wbaker@splat.baker.com>
From: "strick@yak.net" <strick@yak.net>
A friend at apple <brat@apple.com> tells an anecdote of a
presentation that someone from [creator of PASCAL] Wirth's
research project LILITH was giving at Apple.
LILITH is a "dynamic" programming environment, in the style Tim
was describing. Like it's got browsers and classes and
instances and inspectors and interpreted-like class definitions
and looks a lot like the smalltalk environment does.
At the end of the talk, someone from the audience stands up and asks
something to this effect:
-- You claim your system is object-oriented
-- Yes
-- but it doesn't have late binding
-- right
-- and it doesn't have garbage collection
-- right
-- and it doesn't have ...
and he goes on to accuse the system of not having a lot of the
things that Smalltalk has.
-- then it's not really object-oriented after all, is it?
-- well, who's to say what object-oriented is?
-- I am. I'm Alan Kay, and I coined the term.
