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Are those criticisms in response to claims of his otherwise? Does he blame current problems programmers have on not listening to him more? Or make some other cr
by ballenf 8y ago
Are those criticisms in response to claims of his otherwise? Does he blame current problems programmers have on not listening to him more? Or make some other critical claims to trigger what kind of sound like ad hominem* responses?
I will google these questions also, but am always interested the HN crowd's take. Like the original question I didn't know he'd ruffled any feathers.
Edit: top hit was Alan Kay himself addressing criticism on a Quora question: https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-criticized-Alan-Kay https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-criticized-Alan-Kay, but on further read it obliquely addresses criticisms other than his role in developing OOP.