4 Alan Kay Quotes on Programming

Alan Kay quotes on programming

7. OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

13. I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

17. Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

24. ... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About Lisp programming language)