From adrian.lawrence@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Sun Oct 31 15:49:06 2004 From: A E Lawrence To: Tom Locke Cc: occam-com@ukc.ac.uk, java-threads@ukc.ac.uk Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:55:00 +0000 Subject: Re: (now completed) Slides from my talk at CPA2000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre23 i686) Message-ID: <3A281E34.FE8B4FCF@oucs.ox.ac.uk> Tom Locke wrote: > > Hi All, > > On Wednesday, here at Kent, I gave a much more complete talk about the > problems I have with OO, and my proposed CSP-based 'better component > oriented language'. > > The talk was titled (partly for marketing purposes!) > > "The Broken Promises of OO" > > The slides are available from my home page: > > http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/rpg/tsl2/ > > Direct link: > > http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/rpg/tsl2/broken-promises.pdf > > I look forward to your comments! As you will have seen, I have already pointed one mailing list who were debating about moving towards an object orientated design philosophy to your slides. Thay seem to be a well balanced sensible group, but then they come from the hardware community who understand parallelism already as opposed to the typical sequentially compromised software person :-) Ducks... So you shouldn't get any flames. Adrian -- Dr A E Lawrence