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by James Robertson.
Original Post: I'm with Blaine
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In all other languages we've considered [Fortran, Algol60, Lisp, APL, Cobol, Pascal], a program consists of passive data-objects on the one hand and the executable program that manipulates these passive objects on the other. Object-oriented programs replace this bipartite structure with a homogeneous one: they consist of a set of data systems, each of which is capable of operating on itself.
- David Gelernter and Suresh J Jag
Like Blaine, I'm not at all sure why Paul Graham has so much trouble understanding the idea - it's just not that hard.
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