Re: Do you ever use reflection instead of OO?

From:
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
8 Jun 2008 21:59:36 GMT
Message-ID:
<reflection-20080608234346@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Aaron Fude <aaronfude@gmail.com> writes:

1a. HTMLable may be one of very many things that the libary
does, yet the caller which may be an applet, needs to drag that
.jar around with it.


  Then so it be. This is designed this way in Java.

  If you want to go by automobile, you need to drag a motor,
  tires, and tank with you, and possibly three empty seats.
  If you start to rebuilt the car so that you can go without
  them, the result usually will be worse, and you will not
  reached your destination in time.

PS: It's nice to get a reference to Lisp. My first and favorite
language remains Scheme.


  Alan Kay coined the term ?object-oriented? in 1967.
  In 2003, he wrote about it:

      ?OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and
      protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme
      late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk
      and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which
      this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.?

http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en

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