>> I suspect that `object' is the term Turing or Von Neumann would
>> have used instead of TM or automaton if they had had the
>> opportunity to build interesting software.
Maybe so. OTOH Turing was reportedly impressed with Church's lambda
calculus. Maybe he would be more in the functional programming camp,
which is essentially a superset of the OOP camp anyway. Which leads to
another reason why some people "hate objects"...
* Some people "hate objects" because OOP is a limited form of
functional programming, and they don't like to see the
expressiveness reduced unnecessarily.
> ...nobody uses Turning machines as a basis for program
> design except compiler writers...
FWIW a lot of compiler writers use the lambda calculus, esp. in the
functional programming community.
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