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From: coder@ibm.net
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 97 18:29:48 -0700
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On 03/04/97 at 06:23 PM, Nathan Yospe <yospe@hawaii.edu> said: >On Thu, 3
Apr 1997, Michael Hohensee wrote:
>...To tell the truth, loops look like hacks to my
>eyes, and I don't see how _they_ can be coded neatly. Event models, on
>the other hand, can be quite neat. Even without object orientation, I
>would think, though I have not tried to accomplish it myself.
Event based systems are old, as old at least as message based/passing
systems. Them old fogey host guys (Hi Jon! <kof>) were doing message
passing systems back when S/390 and S/360 where the freshest and newest
things since sliced bread, and long before anyone even thought about
objects.
X is a pretty good and familar example: Its massively non-OO, and almost
entirely event based (there were non-event hangovers as of X11r3 which was
the last time I got to study the X guts. X11r6 is hopefully cleaner if
not moderately pristine as an event system).
Emacs is also a pretty decent event based system if you squint and look at
it just right/wrong (I loathe Emacs).
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