Alan Kay's static typing sytem quote...

>
> Hey, all,
>
> I'm trying to find Alan Kay's static typing system quote ("more trouble  
> than they're worth"?) somewhere on the 'net so I can link to it for an  
> article.
>
> Does anyone remember what it was, exactly?
>
> ===Blake===
>
>

> Blake <blake <at> kingdomrpg.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Hey, all,
>>
>> I'm trying to find Alan Kay's static typing system quote ("more trouble
>> than they're worth"?) somewhere on the 'net so I can link to it for an
>> article.
>>
>> Does anyone remember what it was, exactly?
>>
>> ===Blake===
>>
>>
>
>
> Are you thinking of his ACM Queue interview:
>
> http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=273
>
> Where he says this:
>
> "Some people are completely religious about type systems and as a  
> mathematician
> I love the idea of type systems, but nobody has ever come up with one  
> that has
> enough scope. If you combine Simula and Lisp—Lisp didn’t have data  
> structures,
> it had instances of objects—you would have a dynamic type system that  
> would give
> you the range of expression you need."
>
> Glenn Ehrlich
>
>

>
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 2007-11-06, 7:04 PM, Blake wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Glen!
>>
>> That's the one. I think of that every time I sit down to do generics....
>>
>> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht24Ht/doc_kay_oop_en
>
> This link doesn't work for me.  What does it point to?
>
> Rick
>
>

> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:08:09 -0800, Rick Zaccone  
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2007, at 2007-11-06, 7:04 PM, Blake wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Glen!
>>>
>>> That's the one. I think of that every time I sit down to do  
>>> generics....
>>>
>>> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht24Ht/doc_kay_oop_en
>>
>> This link doesn't work for me.  What does it point to?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>
> Yeah, it's a little weird. It works if you go to it through Google.
>
> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla% 
> 3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=LoD&q=Meaning+of+Object-ORiented+Programming
> +ACcording+to+Dr.+ALan+Kay&btnG=Search

>
> On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:14 , Blake wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:08:09 -0800, Rick Zaccone <[hidden email]>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 6, 2007, at 2007-11-06, 7:04 PM, Blake wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you, Glen!
>>>>
>>>> That's the one. I think of that every time I sit down to do  
>>>> generics....
>>>>
>>>> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht24Ht/doc_kay_oop_en
>>>
>>> This link doesn't work for me.  What does it point to?
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, it's a little weird. It works if you go to it through Google.
>>
>> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla% 
>> 3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=LoD&q=Meaning+of+Object-ORiented+Programming
>> +ACcording+to+Dr.+ALan+Kay&btnG=Search
>
> The original link worked fine for me. The actual page mentions its  
> permanent url is
>
> http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en
>
> - Bert -