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> Alan Kay’s 97 OOPSLA keynote Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY Edit: I suspect it is
by danuker 5y ago
> Alan Kay’s 97 OOPSLA keynote
Is it this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Edit: I suspect it is this one, at 10:33 Alan says "Actually I made up the term <<object-oriented>>, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
- ncmncm 5y agoAlan Kay has been redefining what he calls OO for decades. He has lost all credibility. He cribbed OO for Smalltalk from Simula, same as Stroustrup did for C++. (Smalltalk-72 was not OO.) "OO" is just a name for something that already existed. Anyway there is nothing very meritorious about OO: it is sometimes the right thing for part of a problem. But organizing a whole language around it is as idiotic as organizing a car design around making left turns.