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“What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”
One of the anonymous reviewers of my recently published Storage Combinators paper ( pdf ) complained that hiding disk-based, remote, and lo...
Marcel Weiher
His very cogent insight was that Objective-C, like Jimi Hendrix, introduced new concepts that were somewhat revolutionary (""mind blowing") at the time, but are now taken for granted:
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Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was
One of the primary things that people don't understand about Objective-C is that it is a solution of the two language problem , or more prec...
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The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax
I was really surprised to learn that Swift recently adopted Smalltalk keyword syntax: [Accepted] SE-0279: Multiple Trailing Closures . Tha...
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Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution of Smalltalk
At a recent Clojure Berlin Meetup , Veit Heller gave an interesting talk on Macros in Clojure. The meetup was very enjoyable, and the talk...