[fmap]

Others have already mentioned this, but Alan Kay spent his entire career experimenting with approaches to radically simplify computing. The progress reports from vpri give a good overview of a recent project that has since wrapped up, e.g.: https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2012001_steps.pdf

[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Others have already mentioned this, but Alan Kay spent his entire career experimenting with approaches to radically simplify computing.

Yes. And yet, he created OOP [1]. Strange.

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[1] Not on his own.

[jdlshore]

You’re saying this like it’s a “gotcha,” which makes me believe you’re confusing OOP-as-practiced-in-enterprise with OOP-as-invented-by-Kay.

The sad truth is that most great ideas are doomed to drown in a sea of mediocrity and misinterpretation.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

I'm not confusing anything. OOP is a horribly OOT over-engineering of a problem looking for a solution, from the get go. That it morphed and twisted into a bloated mess when it was taken up by people who didn't get it to begin with is just the inevitable result of starting with a big pile of no need to do all that in the first place.

[Phiwise_]

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