Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!kasper From: kasper@iesd.auc.dk (Kasper Osterbye) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Reflections Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 07:55:43 GMT References: <1991May10.201843.7186@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 17 In-reply-to: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu's message of 10 May 91 20:18:43 GMT Tim Budd brings up the question as to whether OO is somthing inherrent to the western culture? Interesting. To me the only assumptions behind the object oriented approach is that we find it natural to understand the world as objects and actions. We do in most languages have nouns and verbs, though it has been discussed whether some north american indian languages had nouns (a house is a rather long during event, but an event never the less). As to whether it is common to organize knowledge in hierarchies, I dont know, but the let's agree that object-based (Wegner's definition) is a pretty common way of viewing the world. --Kasper -- Kasper Osterbye Internet: kasper@iesd.auc.dk Institute for electronic systems Aalborg University Fredrik Bajers vej 7, 9220 Aalborg DENMARK. (W) +45 98 15 85 22 (H) +45 98 37 30 65