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infinite8s on June 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998)

That was also the original model of messaging in Smalltalk (well, without the necessity of a broker).

coldtea on June 25, 2016 [–]

Smalltalk receivers returned values to the senders of the message. Plus, they were synchronous.

So, while indeed still messaging, I'm not sure about the similarity to message queues/brokers in modern enterprise, where, as the parent said "By their nature such messages are asynchronous and unidirectional".

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