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A comment on Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981).

Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by andsoitis on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:25PM (#31451510)
> The point here is that the human potential manifests itself in individuals.

What does this mean?

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by ModernMech on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:19PM (#31452049)
Think of "human potential" as a class, and "individuals" as instances of that class.
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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by andsoitis on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:03PM (#31453080)
I think there are additional levels of human potential that express not at the individual level but at aggregates. Perhaps a MOP* for human potential?

* meta-object protocol

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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by mbrodersen on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:55PM (#31454303)
It is stating a simple obvious truth as if it was a profound deep discovery.
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Re:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) by mbrodersen on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:03AM (#31455150)
To the downvoter(s): How is the statement not an obvious trivial tautology?
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