Joe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay

Why HN readers recommended it

HN uses it in debates about what OOP originally meant, since Kay's message-passing view lines up with Erlang's processes.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Erlang Solutions

Topic

object-oriented programming origins

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• > Erlang != OOP as imagined by Kay... as I understand Kay's intent. You should check out the video[0] of Joe Armstrong interviewing Alan Kay - it seemed to me that Erlang was in some respects closer to what Alan Kay intended for OOP than …

• That is so sad, he was in his late 60s and it seemed like he had a lot of life left in him, talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession. Highly recommend his thesis …

• Concurrency.. the way i understand it, it is about making parts of the program run independent of each other and thus can run at the same time. But you might want to check out someone who knows better, like Rob Pike: [LINK] Yes, Erlang makes …