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Alan Kay
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Alan Kayhttp://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273A commercial hit record for teenagers doesn’t have to have any particular musical merits.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlI invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlI would compare the Smalltalk stuff that we did in the '70s with something like a Gothic cathedral. We had two ideas, really. One of them we got from Lisp: late binding. The other one was the idea of objects. Those gave us something a little bit like the arch, so we were able to make complex, seemingly large structures out of very little material, but I wouldn't put us much past the engineering of 1,000 years ago.
Alan KayI'm not against types, but I don't know of any type systems that aren't a complete pain, so I still like dynamic typing.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlIf you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan KayIf you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kayhttp://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273If you look at software today, through the lens of the history of engineering, it’s certainly engineering of a sort—but it’s the kind of engineering that people without the concept of the arch did. Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Alan Kayhttp://wiki.gungfu.de/Main/ObjectOrientedProgrammingJust a gentle reminder that I took some pains at the last OOPSLA to try to remind everyone that Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax or the class library, it is not even about classes. I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.
The big idea is "messaging" -- that is what the kernal of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it's source: something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase).
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlMost people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. Alan's breakthrough in object oriented programming, wasn't objects, it was the realizing that the Lisp metasystem was what we needed.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlMost undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Alan Kayhttp://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always going to get a pop culture.
Alan Kayhttp://wiki.gungfu.de/Main/ObjectOrientedProgrammingOOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlRevolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction.
Alan KaySimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlSo the problem is-I've said this about both Smalltalk and Lisp-they tend to eat their young. What I mean is that both Lisp and Smalltalk are really fabulous vehicles, because they have a meta-system. They have so many ways of dealing with problems that the early-binding languages don't have, that it's very, very difficult for people who like Lisp or Smalltalk to imagine anything else.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Alan KayThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlThe great problem with Lisp is that it is just good enough to keep us from developing something really good.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlThe one thing it [Lisp] has going against it is that it is not a crystallization of style. The people who use it must have a great deal of personal style themselves. But I think if you can have one language on your system, of the ones that have been around for a while, it should be Lisp.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.htmlUntil real software engineering is developed, the next best practice is to develop with a dynamic system that has extreme late binding in all aspects.
Alan Kayhttp://bc.tech.coop/blog/060224.html[Lisp is] "the greatest single programming language ever designed"
