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by DonHopkins 2092 days ago
https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-criticized-Alan-Kay

>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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