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Re:Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk? by mikelevins on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:24PM (#12191196)
On the one hand, you are of course correct that the meanings of words are defined by usage.

On the other hand, that observation entirely misses Alan Kay's point.

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk? by richardwhiuk on Monday August 01, 2016 @09:56AM (#12202371)
My point was there it isn't necessarily particular imperative to move towards a language which has a pure implementation of object-orientated programming on a mere 'Alan Kay wasn't thinking of this' point, especially given in the real world we have concrete evidence that such a language has never escaped an academic setting.
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