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Fair point. I guess I never see the prophet thing but his ideas are interesting so I tend to follow Kay's work, if only to blend it with many other things, not so closely aligned with his views (ex: Lamport being close to opposite of Kay).

I think the whole pedantic "Alan Kay's OOP" thing comes from his coinage of the term vs. the practical application stemming from the Simula school of object orientation. I have no horse in the race so I really wish one sense of the term would be renamed.




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