> Kay’s ideas are definitely interesting, but they can feel pretty vague They seem vague because they are research questions. Tough research questions. > [m

> Kay’s ideas are definitely interesting, but they can feel pretty vague They seem vague because they are research questions. Tough research questions. > [messaging] usually just boils down to method dispatch or large switch statements. And that's the problem. > [not something] we haven't figured out yet; Well, we obviously haven't figured it out yet, because it ain't large switch statements or (just) method dispatch. > debugging can become quite messy when there’s too much flexibility. Exactly what he's talking about! Languages like Ruby have the metaprogramming flexibility, but they are lacking in the security of meaning department. Languages like Go are pretty good in the security of meaning department, but lacking in the flexibility/expressiveness department. So far, we have achieved either/or. He is saying what we need is both. It's a tough problem.