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Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) by mikro2nd on Sunday May 03, 2015 @09:58AM (#9481296)
1998?... More like the twilight days when Cobol still ruled the land and we thought (feared) that it would never die. Fortunes were being made consulting on the Y2K bug and patching the dodgy Cobol systems responsible.

I do agree, though that OO was treated with suspicion and hostility. Only a tiny number of (us) mavericks were brave enough (or foolish enough) to propose using what our management saw as a "newfangled and risky" proposition.

Let's not even mention mucking about with Extreme Programming. ;)

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Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) by parasubvert on Sunday May 03, 2015 @10:27AM (#9481388)
Oh yes, COBOL was C's evil twin in that regard. It depended what circles you travelled in - engineering depts or IT depts.

I remember posting the c2 wiki pages for XP on my cube wall when XP first came out, and had a Gantt-chart oriented systems engineer tear them down as dangerous nonsense.

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