Soup – Alan Kay on Objects
Allow me one suggestion about Kay, it seems the man knows way too much to be understood by the average us. Not pompously, it's just that when he means A we read B. That led to the drift between Smalltalk OO and cpp OO. I thought it was exagerated, but smalltalk is really entirely different from cpp/java. It has the same vocabulary, but the reality is quite surprising.<p>Kay had education in abstract algebra, cell biology(apparently).. he was fond of old varied computing arch (burroughs). So my point is, before reading his text, do yourself a favor, dig in the litterature deeply and broadly.