On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
This is a "me too"-message from me: For the same reasons as Thomas I'd prefer to stick with "object". While "class" is more correct, I think the difference is something only computer scientists are interested in
Until they use abstractions with sends/receives and they hit the problem that they want to separate one instance from another. Then you have to teach $0 and you have to teach the difference.
and Pd has a tradition of not always following the path of mainstream computer science anyway, because it's not a tool mainly targetting computer scientists but one targetting artists.
and so what? it's still programming. It's still targeted at people who do programming by their very act of using pd. A programmer is someone who programs.
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