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Subject: Re: The Lisp Curse
Date: 27 Jun 2011 15:50:00 GMT
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Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Who was it that said, 'object orientation is just a bloody look up
> table...' ;)

I don't know, but in addition to dispatching the call, you need some
methodology for instance variables.  I wouldn't claim that OO is the fix to
all programming ills, but at its best it does provide a lot of expressive
power from a very modest set of core conepts.

-- 
Andy Valencia
Home page: http://www.vsta.org/andy/
To contact me: http://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html