On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, hard off wrote:
it took me 5 months to figure out the difference between objects, externals, and abstractions....god only knows how much longer it would have taken if i'd had to deal with 'classes' as well. i probably would have given up. 'object' has always been used (even if it is sometimes incorrectly used)..and i personnally wouldn't recommend changing that.
If it took you 5 months to figure it out, it's because that information is too hard to get and people didn't push it to you either. If I teach pd, then on the first day, or even the first hour, I get people to know: classes, objects, messages, methods. I could perhaps skip on methods but then how do you get people to make sense of "no method for...".
I personally can't recommend sticking with calling a class "an object", because it puts pd at odds with the terminology of almost every object-oriented programming language in use today.
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