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What's It All About? Objects, Languages, and Meaning

Ward Cunningham - Do you get religious about programming languages?.  This Channel 9 video interview with Ward Cunningham (the third so far) includes some fascinating observations about objects as little language machines.  I think this provides something useful about the nature of protocols too.

What I want people to notice is at the end where Ward talks about a stock trading application and how they learned about a discrepancy in the use of the same technical term by different communities when they set out to automate some of the procedures.  Listen for the observation about finding the appropriate abstraction (such that days are not about hours and minutes).
posted by Dennis at 5/25/2004 06:08:21 PM