Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998)
I don't really understand this obsession with messages.<p>We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century. The last popular language that supported this paradigm (Objective C) is being replaced and will probably be all but gone in just a few years as Swift (not message based) takes it place.<p>Besides, this idea of message passing is really not that useful for modern programming anyway but a lot of people still have this weird idea that message passing magically solves the problem of data integrity in parallelism. It doesn't. It does nothing to solve it. You can still have deadlocks and you can still have data corruption.<p>The only approach that has provably improved our problems in this area is immutability, but even that paradigm comes at a cost that sometimes doesn't make it worth the trouble