Alan Kay and OO Programming
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I'm not going to link to the thread which set me off on this topic because there's no need to embarrass the people who say things like ...Programming existed. Objects existed. Then [Alan] Kay contributed "-oriented" to the term "object-oriented programming" and the world went wild, but why?Or another person, objecting to Kay's criticism of "modern" OO programming:"It's different than what I already know so it's wrong." This kind of thinking is why I quit CS major, chose to not pursue a career in programming, and haven't looked back.This was largely in response to Alan Kay's famous 1997 OOPSLA keynote which is worth watching in its entirety.There's much more in that thread, and while some understood what Kay was trying to say, many others seemed unaware of Kay's background and acted as if he was some grumpy old dude who just graduated from a Rails Bootcamp.This is Dr. Alan Kay we're talking about! He doesn't have random opinions about "objects", he invented the word back in the 60s . H…

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