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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 4 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
1. BrutallyHonest ◴[20 Jun 16 21:48 UTC] No.11941844[source]▶
What is Actor Model lacking?
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2. alankay1 ◴[21 Jun 16 15:31 UTC] No.11946412[source]▶
For what?
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3. BrutallyHonest ◴[21 Jun 16 20:10 UTC] No.11949025[source]▶
1) To become as mainstream in a general-purpose way as OOP and functional programming paradigms are. One of the problems I know is lack of composability.

2) To become your favourite approach.

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4. alankay1 ◴[22 Jun 16 14:37 UTC] No.11954270{3}[source]▶
Historically, (1) has not particularly depended on merit, and (2) would require a lot (because "nice atoms" were more interesting back in the 60s than today).