Nick, Many years ago I asked this question of an IT person in Austin (little different, about distributed objects), and he pointed me at this book, which I dutifully got and read:
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Distributed-Objects-Survival-Guide/dp/0471129933 <https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Distributed-Objects-Survival-Guide/dp/0471129933> This must be, what, 1995? It’s also kind of a juvenile style, and doesn’t go very far, but somebody made the effort to write down a systematic narrative. All best, Eric > On Jul 17, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > > Dave, and anybody else who wants to play. > > I have always been puzzled by the question of how one distinguishes an object > in object programming from a utility in DOS or a tool in Matlab. Or any > mathematical function, for that matter. You give it what it needs, and it > gives you what it’s supposed to, and you don’t give a damn how it works. > > Please don’t yell at me. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove
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