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From: champeaux@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Dennis de Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks
Message-ID: <4110@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 17:18:40 GMT
References: <477@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: champeaux@hplabsz.UUCP (Dennis de Champeaux)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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Simula is one of the roots of the oo-bandwagon.  From the concurrency in
Simula to parallelism is just a little step.  Thus you,
Schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU, rediscovered a feature that was "lost" over time.

FYI.  We conceive the objects in our oo-analysis work as being autonomous,
little machine like entities.  Parallism is the rule.  Thus, a main task of
oo-design - as we see it now - is to decide how to squeeze these analysis
objects into sequential behavior.  Since current oop languages are weak on
parallelism/ concurrency.