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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by infinite8s on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:13AM (#11970373)
>> This is not how we program in the 21st century

Sadly, how we program in the 21st century isn't much different to how we programmed in the early 20th century when computers were first invented (at least to a 1st order approach).

Where are the Maxwell equations of Computer Science?

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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by ruraljuror on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:35PM (#11971171)
Perhaps this is what you're referring to, but according to Kay they can be found in Lisp.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

https://www.amazon.com/LISP-Programmers-Manual-Michael-Levin...

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