Checking some links to Kay's responses elsewhere, i get the impression that unless we basically toss the notion of a programs as a singular compiled file of binary, and replace it with some kind of abstract notion of work that can happen on a single computer, or across the net as a whole, the distinction between a message and a method is academic at best.
Because for message as a concept to make sense, it has to be seen as someone standing on a rooftop shouting "can someone please hit that nail?!", and then wait around until someone shouts back "done!".
Without that you just end up with a carpenter talking to himself "hit nail, done, hit nail, done, hit nail, done".
Checking some links to Kay's responses elsewhere, i get the impression that unless we basically toss the notion of a programs as a singular compiled file of binary, and replace it with some kind of abstract notion of work that can happen on a single computer, or across the net as a whole, the distinction between a message and a method is academic at best.
Because for message as a concept to make sense, it has to be seen as someone standing on a rooftop shouting "can someone please hit that nail?!", and then wait around until someone shouts back "done!".
Without that you just end up with a carpenter talking to himself "hit nail, done, hit nail, done, hit nail, done".