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Real world code? All code sucks. And Alan Kay says something more damning than that: he says that the whole industry is a pop culture. We are living in the m
by david927 14y ago
Real world code? All code sucks. And Alan Kay says something more damning than that: he says that the whole industry is a pop culture. We are living in the murky anterenaissance and precious few seem bothered by it.
- signalsignal 14y agoYou're right. Alan Kay does come across as rather bitter.
- michaelochurch 14y agoAlan Kay has every right to be bitter. He's a great software architect, and came up with OOP as a perfectly reasonable policy for managing complexity. Now most people associate OOP with commercial garbage and that VisitorSingletonFactory nonsense. If you came up with a set of really good ideas that were later bastardized and mutated into the sort of business horseshit that's destroying software, wouldn't you be pissed off?
- david927 14y agoI didn't say that. Imagine the great classical Greeks watching the dark ages take place. You could imagine their horror. Not bitter, just horrified. And with good reason.