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Everytime I read Alan Kay's comments on OOP, I end up more confused than before... Is SmallTalk the way it was 'supposed' to be?
by Tycho 16y ago
Everytime I read Alan Kay's comments on OOP, I end up more confused than before... Is SmallTalk the way it was 'supposed' to be?
- Homunculiheaded 16y agoPeople always half quote Kay on C++. He says "I came up with the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind", but if you listen to the actual talk this comes up in, he immediately follows with (slight paraphrasing here) "Of course I'm not sure I had smalltalk in mind either"
- silentbicycle 16y agoNo, Smalltalk was a snapshot of a system that was meant to keep evolving. See also this interview with Alan Kay: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
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