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Reminds me of some Alan Kay talks: https://youtu.be/YyIQKBzIuBY?t=1384 https://youtu.be/YyIQKBzIuBY?t=1384 He actually mentions the book that is the source fo
by gambler 6y ago
Reminds me of some Alan Kay talks:
https://youtu.be/YyIQKBzIuBY?t=1384 https://youtu.be/YyIQKBzIuBY?t=1384
He actually mentions the book that is the source for the first illustration in the article. He also often talks about the speed of molecules and how it's counter-intuitive to the commonplace idea of cell operation.
Cell biology was an inspiration for original OOP (which wasn't much like Java/C++ at all).
When reading about Covid stuff and immunity, I often think how these mechanism could be imitated in engineering. I definitely believe there are some general principles that we could benefit from without trying to "simulate" biology.
Edit: Sorry, same author/illustrator, but different book.
- selestify 6y agoAny chance you could provide a summary of how OOP was originally much more similar to cell biology? :)
- gambler 6y agoSome of the ideas that were translated to reality are covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo Some of them never got fully translated to reality at Xerox because of various reasons (e.g. memory limitation of hardware at the time). This is worth a read: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.html http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis-Contents.ht...
- amatic 6y agoOOP could only have been inspired by the then-available knowledge of cell biology, and it seems that even today we still have a lot to learn.
- ncmncm 6y agoWe know way less than we don't know. And much of what we think we know is wrong.