First of all you will never see the word message mentioned in those languages you mentioned <br>Second the word , understood, says nothing about the nature of the problem to a beginner <br><br>Is it that the method does not exist ?<br>Or is it that method exists but message does not ?<br>Or is it that the method does something it should not ?<br>Or is the VM that has problem executing the method ?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 at 11:27, Aliaksei Syrel &lt;<a href="mailto:alex.syrel@gmail.com">alex.syrel@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">&quot;Message(method) does not exist&quot; happens in C/Java/etc when we <b class="gmail_msg">call</b> a method.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">&quot;Message not understood by an object&quot; happens in Smalltalk/Ruby when we <b class="gmail_msg">send</b> a message.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">I like this conceptual distinguishment��between calling a method and sending a message.</span><br class="gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-585750235114182613gmail_signature gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Cheers,<div class="gmail_msg">Alex</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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