Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!hsi!stpstn!cox From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Reflections Message-ID: <7009@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 20 May 91 00:25:15 GMT References: <1991May10.201843.7186@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) Organization: Stepstone Lines: 20 In article kasper@iesd.auc.dk (Kasper Osterbye) writes: >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. Aristotle and Plato's viewpoint predominated before Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin etc brought on the nature-centric, object-oriented, 'scientific' viewpoint. Telescopes, microscopes and butterfly nets first; logic and mathematics later. In other words, orient on the objects instead of insisting on a programmer-centric view of the universe. To the Platonists, the world of the senses was a place of illusion. Truth could only be had by applying reason, logic, and mathematics. Just as so many Neo-Platonists still hope to do for software. -- Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875 The Stepstone Corporation; 75 Glen Road; Sandy Hook CT 06482