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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).
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Bystroushaak ◴[20 Jun 16 20:35 UTC] No.11941330[source]▶
I have two questions:

1. It is known that you read a lot. Do you plan to write a book? You have been a big inspiration for me and I would love to read a book from you.

2. What is your opinion about Self programming language (http://www.selflanguage.org)? I've read „STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming“ pdf and this feels related, especially to with the Klein interpreter (http://kleinvm.sourceforge.net/).

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alankay1 ◴[20 Jun 16 20:40 UTC] No.11941380[source]▶
I liked Self. "Good OOP" is still waiting for a much better notion to replace the idea of a "Class"
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1. kgr ◴[21 Jun 16 15:53 UTC] No.11946627[source]▶
In FOAM (the Feature-Oriented Active Modeler) we replace classes with Models, which are just collections of Axioms. There are pre-built Axiom types for standard things like methods and properties, but also for things like imports, exports, traits, listeners, topics, templates, actions, inner-models/classes, etc. Axioms are themselves modeled, so you can create new types as required. In the end, you still end up with a class, but it's defined/built with an extensible composition of objects rather than by a more limited and static class definition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LbUv5FsGQ

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2. alankay1 ◴[21 Jun 16 16:01 UTC] No.11946696[source]▶
Could you list something to read please?
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3. kgr ◴[21 Jun 16 17:19 UTC] No.11947435[source]▶
https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/wiki

https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/wiki/How-FOAM-is-Diff...

https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/wiki/KeyConcepts

http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/

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4. alankay1 ◴[22 Jun 16 12:15 UTC] No.11953238{3}[source]▶
Worth comparing to Dan Ingalls' Lively Kernel https://www.lively-kernel.org/