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		chrisseaton on March 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Progra... That document says that their messages were synchronous by default, and that asynchronous was something extra built on top just for distributed objects, not how they worked normally and not part of a uniform message passing interface.

pjmlp on March 17, 2019 [–]

Yes, it was up to you to change the behavior on doesNotUnderstand: methods, but the feature was available, just a matter of defaults.

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