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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

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  1. shevy-java · · focus · HN ↗
    It would have been kind of great to see an OOP language with Alan's design, but with a better syntax. I dislike smalltalk syntax. Barely anyone uses smalltalk today.

    Even then, we'd also have an OOP language to be really really fast. Otherwise people will just use C.

    Java itself is too verbose and has a rather boring OOP model.

    1. goatlover · · focus · HN ↗
      Crystal is a fast, compiled OOP language. It has static type inference with Ruby-style syntax. Ruby's OOP model took inspiration from Smalltalk.

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crystal-lang.org&#x2F;

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