> is this thing about late binding. You do it all in runtime,
> basically. You get to be dynamic, aren't under the thumb of a finicky
> compiler that requires you to predeclare, and thence to "nail down"
> all your code. Nope, don't have to do it that way, as SmallTalk and
> Python both prove.
My senbilities only feel under assault when reading the writings of one of these folks.
His name is Alan Kay.
How can they all be saying the same thing?
I *do* acknowledge to Mr. Kay exactly what he asks to have acknowledged -
he is in a class of his own.
.
No - he needn't care that he offends me.
What I am thoroughly confused about - in all honesty - is that I seem to be the exception
to the rule, rather the rule.
I don't mean this sarcastically, as more nastiness.
I honestly don't understand the seriousness with which he is taken.
And I have read a lot about science, its history;. and the players that history has
anointed.
Art
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