Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] SuperClonider
From: Michael J McGonagle (fndsnd_AT_rcnchicago.com)
Date: Sat Apr 20 2002 - 22:57:08 EEST
Dustin Barlow wrote:
>
> >Well, if SuperCollider is based on SmallTalk, then yes it would be OO.
> >SmallTalk is considered to be one of the first OO languages, from whence
> >most others model themselves. I think the only thing that makes
> >SmallTalk more "OO" than Java is that it also abstracts all of the
> >primitive data types into Objects.
>
> FYI: Java also wraps its primitive data types into objects as well.
Yes, but it really was only done to provide faster low-level operations
rather than having to do everything in the "slower" OO fashion. You
don't need to "wrap" or "unwrap" the objects to get at their data. I
think this was a concious design decision on the part of Mr. Gosling.
Mike
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