Re:Notes by Andy Hertzfeld on Alan Kay's talk at Creative Th...
by coldtea on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:01AM
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>He was ahead of his time in the 70s, but the world flew by. Even today he dwells on dynabooks, smalltalk, etc in his lectures - all innovative ideas for its time... but they never evolved and don't translate well in today's world (see One Laptop per Child)
Part of why the world "flew by" is because those ideas existed and informed what came next. And even today what he have falls short of many of those ideas (most modern dynamic languages are worse than Smalltalk in many if not most aspects for example, except adoption).
Part of why the world "flew by" is because those ideas existed and informed what came next. And even today what he have falls short of many of those ideas (most modern dynamic languages are worse than Smalltalk in many if not most aspects for example, except adoption).