Re:Being poor at modeling is essential to OOP (comment on LtU)
by curtis on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @11:54PM
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I think you're right that there's a serious problem with how OOP is described. Why that's so is a full topic in and of itself.
In the case of Alan Kay, I can't help but feel like he was trying to create one thing but actually created another.
Re:Being poor at modeling is essential to OOP (comment on LtU)
by jamesbritt on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @12:24AM
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"Smalltalk is object-oriented, but it should have been message oriented." -- Alan Kay
I blame Alan Kay for inventing a new paradigm and then not explaining how it was supposed to be used (it's like Lisp meets biology!), thus allowing it to be taken over by others who filled the vacuum with a multitude of their own (usually half-baked) ideas bastardized implementations, and "software architect" positions.