Re:Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video]
by gleb on Sunday May 14, 2017 @06:53PM
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Dr. Kay, do you consider Erlang/Elixir object oriented, in your original meaning of OO?
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Re:Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video]
by alankay1 on Sunday May 14, 2017 @07:17PM
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Very much in the same spirit as I thought about it back in the 60s. I don't think I invented "Object-oriented" but more or less "noticed" what was really powerful about just making everything from complete computers communicating with non-command messages. This was all chronicled in the HOPL II chapter I wrote "The Early History of Smalltalk".
A critical part of that thought process was the idea of using Carl Hewitt's PLANNER ideas as the interface to objects -- that was done around 1970, and we used some of it in the first Smalltalk (72).