The kingdoms of objects and values

Abstract

THE purpose of the following paper is to consider whether there is a fundamental division of the [data] with which [programming] is concerned into two classes, [objects] and [values], or whether there is any method of overcoming this dualism. My own opinion is that the dualism is ultimate; on the other hand, many [colleagues] with whom, in the main, I am in close agreement, hold that it is not ultimate.