Civil Rights for Items/Objects

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1 total messages Started by pop Tue, 12 Jun 1990 13:30

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Author: pop
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 1990 13:30

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From: pop@cs.umass.edu (Robin Popplestone)
Path: cs.umass.edu!pop
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Subject: Civil Rights for Items/Objects
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The idea was much in the air in the 60's - whether in Birmingham or
Burntollet. Landin and/or Strachey was using a phrase like "First class
citizen" in speaking of entities referred to in a programming language. 

If you can catch Rod Burstall in the right phase of his equivalent to ora
et labora he may offer some enlightenment. I seem to recall him going round
quoting Quine as pronouncing that "To be is to be the value of a variable".

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