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Soup

Oct 25, 2018 some comments

As I listen to “Soup” by Can I’m reminded of the time when Alan Kay took some time to post on Hacker News addressing his thoughts and ideas about object-oriented programming. For raw context read the original thread, but in this post I’ll attempt to annotate some of what was posted. For the purpose of […]

A ha! Ha ha! Aah…

Sep 4, 2013 some comments

When I first started using Clojure I was often very confused. My previous context before finding Clojure was one where things like Java, an object-oriented mindset and bang-in-place update models reigned. So, as you can imagine, that Clojure took a very different approach to modeling time and preferring functional composition seemed to me quite a […]

Kay’s 8

Mar 15, 2012 some comments

From Alan Kay on the fonc mailing list (circa March 2012): … since meeting Seymour and starting to think about children and programming, there were eight systems that I thought were really nifty and cried out to be unified somehow: Joss 1 Lisp 2 Logo 3 which was originally a unification of Joss and Lisp, […]

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