Python misses or fudges the Alan Kay definition of OOP on a couple of points. 1) Most typical object operations aren’t “messages” in the Smalltalk sense, although the “magic” methods, like __call__ and __getattr__ may be construed as such.. …

May 22, 2020 · Alan Kay's notion of OOP seems to have significant benefits in that regard, so it's not "fucking stupid", it just has the same downsides that can be found in many functional languages as well (ie: high overhead, which requires a more advanced optimization infrastructure to sufficiently tame).

Sep 11, 2020 · Love Alan, and he did amazing! He has THE best narration voice. Everytime I saw the post show of season 7, I wished they had gotten Alan to do it. At the VERY least, they should get a former contestant to host the post shows so they would know what questions to ask. But I digress lol, Allen was indeed a wise man, thank you for posting this!

Actually, Alan Kay did more than just contribute "-oriented". In his own words describing the history : If we look at the whole history, we see that the proto-OOP stuff started with ADT, had a little fork towards what I called "objects" -- that led to Smalltalk, etc.,-- but after the little fork, the CS establishment pretty much did ADT and ...

Mar 17, 2019 · Alan Kay's ideas give Alan Kay's vision of Alan Kay's intent behind OO. The vision and intent that most other people have shared under that name have been quite different. Modern "Object-Oriented" programming is almost completely separate and distinct from what Alan Kay originally intended, and I think it's worth keeping the two ideas apart.

Alan Kay seems to be saying so by emphasizing the importance of "message passing". Servers a.k.a Services are "objects" in the sense that there is a clear (process-) boundary between them and the rest of the world.

Nov 22, 2020 · Dr Alan Kay made the buzzword, that doesn't mean he's the ultimate judge of how it should be used. Nor him being a doctor changes anything. Postmodern bullshit - I'd rather listen to a turing award winner who invented the concept than some random software developer who thinks they are entitled to an opinion because they happen to use Java.

Jun 6, 2024 · I've read in multiple places that Alone S1 winner Alan Kay narrates S3. I've just finished the season and didn't hear him speak once throughout. There's not been a narrator on any of the first 3 seasons I've watched, only the constestants speaking. I'm confused

Actually, OOP was invented by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Alan Kay, as he wrote himself, learned about OOP by reading the source code for their Simula 67 compiler, while thinking he was reading the source code of a slightly strange Algol 60 compiler.

Apr 3, 2018 · Kay's view, and the view of those around him was very explicit. The Graphical User Interface, a GUI allows the use of icons or other visual indicators to interact with electronic devices, rather than using only text via the command line. Three years before Alan Kay wrote this I demonstrated a working version of a GUI which had no such ...