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		lmm on Sept 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) > Something being hard is not an argument for or against anything. A paradigm being hard to get things done in is definitely an argument against the value of that paradigm.

alexashka on Sept 30, 2024 [–]

Right, because Alan Kay is suggesting we do the hard thing when we can instead do the easy thing and achieve a similar outcome.

That Alan Kay guy sure is a bit of a dummy huh.

lmm on Oct 1, 2024 | [–]

This but unironically.

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