Comment on Functional Programming vs. Object Oriented Programming
Redkey@programming.dev 3 months agoWhatever it may have become in later years, Alan Kay, who is often called “The Father of Object-oriented Programming”, outlined the message-passing idea as the main concept he was driving at, originally.
He also says that he probably misnamed it.
Here’s a discussion in which the man himself makes a (small) appearance: …stackexchange.com/…/so-what-did-alan-kay-really-…