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by mikelevins 3616 days ago
On the one hand, you are of course correct that the meanings of words are defined by usage.

On the other hand, that observation entirely misses Alan Kay's point.

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My point was there it isn't necessarily particular imperative to move towards a language which has a pure implementation of object-orientated programming on a mere 'Alan Kay wasn't thinking of this' point, especially given in the real world we have concrete evidence that such a language has never escaped an academic setting.