Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess...
by anaphor on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:36PM
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There's a quote from Joe Armstrong saying something like that
> As Erlang became popular we were often asked "Is Erlang OO" - well, of course the true answer was "No of course not" - but we didn't to say this out loud - so we invented a serious of ingenious ways of answering the question that were designed to give the impression that Erlang was (sort of) OO (If you waved your hands a lot) but not really (If you listened to what we actually said, and read the small print carefully).
Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess...
by trevyn on Saturday December 21, 2019 @07:21PM
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>If a language technology is so bad that it creates a new industry to solve problems of its own making then it must be a good idea for the guys who want to make money.
> As Erlang became popular we were often asked "Is Erlang OO" - well, of course the true answer was "No of course not" - but we didn't to say this out loud - so we invented a serious of ingenious ways of answering the question that were designed to give the impression that Erlang was (sort of) OO (If you waved your hands a lot) but not really (If you listened to what we actually said, and read the small print carefully).
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11809324/903589