render@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/20/89)
Written 7:52 am Nov 18, 1989 by pcg@emerald.cs.aber.ac.uk: >Well, I ten to agree that Smalltalk for one has nice FP like >technology, no doubt inspired by Interlisp among others; but >unfortunately Smalltalk is not what most people know as an OO >language. The likes of Object Pascal, C++, Ada (argh!) are >associated in the public's mind with OO programming. Are you serious? Everyone I've ever met who claims to know something about OOPLs (other than recent C++ converts) basically holds Smalltalk up as the standard against which other OO languages are measured. I'm not saying this is proper, but it does seem to be the case. What "public" are you talking about? BTW, if you want to talk about combining OO and FP paradigms, the SCOOPS (Scheme Object-Oriented Programming System) is an OO front-end to Scheme. In SCOOPS I believe you still have access to all of Scheme's functional constructs, including continuations. I've only played around with SCOOPS a bit, but it seems to be a pretty nice little set up. hal.