The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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