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Post by lpalmes » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Hi Alan, If you are familiar with Go, what do you think about it's simplicity as a language? It's something other languages should start thinking about in their design?

Re: Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

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Post by asymmetric » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Do you agree with the POV that sees Erlang as implementing some of the core tenets of OOP, namely message passing and encapsulation of state? (Cfr. for example http://tech.noredink.com/post/142689001488/the-most-object-o...)

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Post by miguelrochefort » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

What are your thoughts on the Semantic Web? Why do you think it hasn't succeeded yet?

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Post by blendo » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Any thoughts on UC Berkeley's "Beauty and Joy of Computing"? (http://bjc.berkeley.edu/)

Should AP's new "CS Principles" course count towards the math requirement for college admission?

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Post by adamnemecek » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

What are some opinions (CS related or not) that you completely changed your mind on?

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Post by anildigital » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

Do you think Java is an Object Oriented programming language?

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Post by s800 » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

Any conventional paradigms that you'd like to see retired? FS, Unix, signalling/messaging, etc.?

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Post by alankay » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

oooooppmba wrote: post #5

What is your one piece of advice to college students studying CS?

Learn a lot of other things, and at least one real science and one real engineering. This will help to calibrate the somewhat odd lore aka "computing knowledge". I would certainly urge a number of anthropology courses (and social psychology, etc), theater, and so forth. In the right school, I'd suggest "media theory" (of the "Mcluhan", "Innis", "Postman" kind ...)

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Post by mti27 » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

What TV show or movie have you seen that has realistically portrayed advanced computer technology, or is growing into it? In other words, now that we have Amazon Echo is the Forbin Project more realistic?

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Post by pyed » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

Do we "really" need more programming languages ?