Rees (<a href="http://mumble.net/~jar/" rel="nofollow">http://mumble.net/~jar/</a>) studied under Sussman at MIT and is one of the creators of Scheme48 (<a href="http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/s48/" rel="nofollow">http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/s48/</a>).
>>> <i>In that case, the only way OO can be defended is in the same manner as any other game or discipline</i><p>Brilliant meta-analysis of abstract patterns and narratives.
"So OO is not a well defined concept." Hmmm, last I checked OO was pretty well defined. The implementations of so-called OO languages, on the other hand, that's another story.<p>If Jonathan or Paul have any doubts on the concept as it was originally conceived, they don't really have to go far. Just ask Alan Kay. He's still alive!<p><a href="http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en" rel="nofollow">http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...</a>