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Bookmark or Share- A "simple" explanation of what Alan Kay meant when he talks ... - Redditargument by authority - Dr Alan Kay made the buzzword, that doesn't mean he's the ultimate judge of how it should be used. Nor him being a doctor changes anything. argument by metaphor - Dr Alan Kay says that software systems should be constructed like biological systems to enable software systems to solve issues as complex as the ones in biology.
- Alan Kay's answer to How does one get as close as possible to ... - RedditActually Smalltalk 72 was still what Alan Kay wanted OOP to be, it was Smalltalk 80 that deviated from his vision. The change made in Smalltalk 80 was, well, that the actor model of messaging passsing was removed, and the new message passing became synchronous. You may want to check this article for more information, its a good read:
- Alan Kay's take on CS during the 90s was brutal : r/programming - RedditDr Alan Kay made the buzzword, that doesn't mean he's the ultimate judge of how it should be used. Nor him being a doctor changes anything. Postmodern bullshit - I'd rather listen to a turing award winner who invented the concept than some random software developer who thinks they are entitled to an opinion because they happen to use Java.
- Alan Kay narrator? Confused : r/Alonetv - RedditI've read in multiple places that Alone S1 winner Alan Kay narrates S3. I've just finished the season and didn't hear him speak once throughout. There's not been a narrator on any of the first 3 seasons I've watched, only the constestants speaking. I'm confused
- Alan Kay on why he created object-oriented programmingAlan Kay's notion of OOP seems to have significant benefits in that regard, so it's not "fucking stupid", it just has the same downsides that can be found in many functional languages as well (ie: high overhead, which requires a more advanced optimization infrastructure to sufficiently tame).
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