> ...and the Smalltalk enthusiast pounces! ;)
>
>> OOP is also a "shadow" of the Actor Model... (Alan Kay was a student
>> of Carl Hewitt, IIRC).
>
> Nope. Kay says the idea coalesced for him in 1966, and the
>strongest influences were Simula (Kristen Nygaard) and Sketchpad (Ivan
>Sutherland). Kay's article "The Early History of Smalltalk" is a fun
>read, by the way.
>
> Normally I wouldn't speak up in this sort of conversation (it's
>such a cliche for me by now ;),
please do your duty !
>but that statement made me do a
>double-take. :) You might be thinking of Hewitt's influence on Sussman
>et al with Scheme, not Kay.
Hewitt writes somewhere that the Actor model is influenced by Smalltalk, AFAIR.
> In a desperate attempt to say something on-topic, I'll agree that
>(at least in Smalltalk as I see it), there is no distinction between
>programming language and "application". Also, the number of angels that
>can dance on the head of a pin is currently 42. ;)
but is there a distinction between lanuage and its own change?
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Received on Fri Jun 22 2007 - 21:24:52 BST