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Indeed. OO is so ill defined anyway. What is documented as OO now I am sure is not what alan kay intended it to be. New popular frameworks like rails don't help
by michaelneale 19y ago
Indeed. OO is so ill defined anyway. What is documented as OO now I am sure is not what alan kay intended it to be. New popular frameworks like rails don't help either (much) - although its oo-lite - so its not so bad.
still, I am looking forward for an excuse to crack out stuff like arc and walk away from OO for a while (I am allowed to dream).
- stcredzero 19y agoI've been working with Smalltalk, which was Alan Kay's creation. Most implementations are not what he intended -- at one Smalltalk Solutions keynote he excoriated all of us. He said that he never intended Smalltalk to become a programming language. He wanted to create a Montessori toy for the mind. That said, I don't think that Smalltalk as a programming language is that far from what he intended. He just never intended it to stop there.