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Brad Cox described this in “Object-oriented Programming”, a book I first read in 1989. Building applications. simply by plugging together off-the-shelf components remains a beautiful vision, and it is almost entirely unrealised 30 years on.

“Object-oriented Programming”, [...] Building applications. simply by plugging together off-the-shelf components

I've read just here on HN that microservices architecture is none other than an implementation of the original concept of OOP.

Possibly. But my understanding of “the concept of OOP” involves a separate identity for each object.

Suppose the thing you are dealing with is “Customers”, then with OOP each Customer is a separate object, while with MSOP you must communicate to the service which Customer you are talking about. The thing you talk to and the thing you are talking about have different identities.

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