It is good to see messaging become more popular! It has been around for a long, long time, but it has never been given the spotlight. going meta for a bit...

It is good to see messaging become more popular! It has been around for a long, long time, but it has never been given the spotlight. going meta for a bit... When I see the number of comments here, I have optimism for the system that is distributing the important knowledge (the Internet and good online communities ( HN )). I don't think the ACM or any of the engineering related orgs are ahead of the curve on these things. Engineers need to share with engineers on this topic. I just read the paper by Richard Gabriel on CLOS and Mixins. One of the tl;drs for that paper is that engineers are the driving most of the innovation in this field. (or at least as much as academia). This reinforces the point above. In contrast, throughout the 80s,90s or even 00s, when I talked or asked about Smalltalk, Objects, and other interesting tech... I was usually told that those were failures. "Go with C++ or Java". Those languages are the very ones that made MOP and other interesting paradigms feel like you were going against the grain. Even if you were following some usenet newsgroup that had good discussion. There was usually a bozo factor or too much religion (aka not much cross pollination) So glad to be in the future and see positive discussion occurring! ... going un-meta tl;dr - It is good to see people look at the existing paradigms with an open mind. just like functional programming. Overall the post linked to is not that interesting. It is the discussion in the comments here that is inspiring.