David Robson

Byte magazine
https://nippybox.com/v/f75b24 Extracted pdf from archive.org from Stackexchange oop Byte Magazine "The realization that information can describe the manipulation of information is largely repsonsible for the great utility of computers today. Howeever, that discovery is also partially responsible for the failure of computers to reach the utility of some predictions made in earlier times. On the one hand, it can be seen as a unification between the manipulator and the manipulated. However, in practice, it has been seen as a distinction between software and the information it manipulates. For small systems, this distinction is harmless."

"...unification between the manipulator and the manipulated ...." The Hegelian Dialectic has nothing to do with functions mapping inputs to outputs. A math function doesn't manipulate the range, it maps it into the domain.

publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mgaNL18AAAAJ&hl=en publications by Robson on oop

Conference on Software Maintenance 1990 - Object-oriented programming-the problems of validation DOI: 10.1109/icsm.1990.131372

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Alan Kay