Jacek Generowicz jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Tue Oct 5 02:59:56 EDT 2004

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Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> writes:

> "Messages" in ObjC are really just a metaphor, one that is shared by
> Smalltalk, but not many other object-oriented languages.

_Most_ object-oriented languages support object orientation via the
message passing paradigm. Python included.

It's just that in Smalltalk the word "message" plays a more central
role in the (natural) language used to talk about the (programming)
language. In other (programming) languages, terms such as "method" and
"member function" tend to be used to describe the same concept.

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