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▲Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video] (youtube.com)
wood_spirit 49 minutes ago [-]
Aha i saw this video in a comment on another HN thread this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791117 Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system
dang 52 minutes ago [-]
The full talk seems to be at https://au.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fe0..., but with a confusing interface (text chat flying by at speed, and no actual video of Alan, though you do get a prolonged view of a whiteboard). Maybe there's another copy that exists or will show up somewhere?
RobRivera 29 minutes ago [-]
Can someone please explain to me what this is all about?
dang 27 minutes ago [-]
I've added an explanation to the toptext which is taken from a comment by DonHopkins, who recorded (but did not submit) the video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622607.

Hopefully Don won't mind!

shevy-java 9 minutes ago [-]
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.

goatlover 3 minutes ago [-]
Crystal is a fast compiled OOP language. It has static type inference with Ruby-style syntax. Ruby's OOP took inspiration from Smalltalk.
21 minutes ago [-]
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