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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by ProfHewitt on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:12PM (#21854442)
Actors keep getting rediscovered because they are universal abstraction for digital computation.
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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by DonHopkins on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:22AM (#21857995)
My nightmare scenario is that Larry Ellison rediscovers the Oracle Turing Machine, and copyrights its API.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/supreme-court-wi...

(In the cover photo of that article, it looks like people have been urinating on the Oracle logo!)

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Re:Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about mess... by mathgladiator on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:16AM (#21863695)
I believe it, and I think we are in this stage of figuring out which model to represent it make the most sense in a broader scope.
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