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Alan Kay has been saying that at least since the 1970's, but the likes of Joel Spolsky have always argued against it. Now comes Martin Fowler to tell us that Al
by innguest 12y ago
Alan Kay has been saying that at least since the 1970's, but the likes of Joel Spolsky have always argued against it. Now comes Martin Fowler to tell us that Alan Kay was right, without crediting him, of course.
- jalfresi 12y agoThats interesting, any links where I can find out more of Alan Kays ideas on this subject?
- innguest 12y agoAlan Kay famously went through several iterations of rewriting the first Smalltalks from scratch and he is a big believer in that approach. I don't know if it's easy to find him talk about that explicitly but here's one example: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523 > AK I had the world’s greatest group [in the Smalltalk era], and I should have made the world’s two greatest groups. I didn’t realize there are benefits to having real implementers and real users, and there are benefits to starting from scratch every few months. I'd recommend his talks at OOPSLA or anything you can find on YouTube. Especially 'The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet' is a gospel for contrarians.
- pluma 12y agoTo be fair, the idea itself is much older. It actually reminds me of the Japanese approach to mastery: do something, do the same thing again, repeat until you have mastered it.