[FRIAM] What is an object?

[David Eric Smith]

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 <nickthompson at 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
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