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by dshep
2092 days ago
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For better or worst, reading Dijkstra always reminds of these funny (I think) comments that Alan Kay made in 1997... "Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras" --Alan Kay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs |
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>Has anyone criticized Alan Kay?
>Alan Kay, Had something to do with "Object-Oriented Programming". Answered May 3, 2016.
>As Mark Miller mentioned, Dijkstra once said that "Object-Oriented Programming was such a bad idea that it could only have come from California"! However, he and I were friendly, so I took that as a backhanded compliment. My research group at Xerox Parc was known as "The Lunatic Fringe", usually (I thought) affectionately. I don't count trolls on reddit and slashdot and elsewhere.
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