I'm no doubt your biggest fan. What do you think of the Simula inventors work?
The Simula guys cannot be too highly praised, especially Nygaard.
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#572Statically typed programming languages or Dynamically typed programming languages?
What does an "Intergalactic Network" need?
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#573How do you become a lifelong learner ? How do you stay excited about the future ?
Have good parents (and probably some pre-dispositions). Then be really stubborn about wanting to understand what is going on (no one else really wants you to)
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#574Hi Alan, What do you find most frustrating about software development at current times. Regards, Jyoti
Yikes!
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#575What's your most successful problem solving technique?
Delay ...
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#576What do you do to keep focus during the day?
Take a nap, play music, take showers, goof off, read junk novels, etc.
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#577Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's a good non-UNIX open-source operating system that's useful for day-to-day work, or at least academically significant enough that it's worth diving in to?
Here's a list of alternatives I put together to see some capabilities or traits UNIX lacked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10957020 I think, usable day-to-day, I'd say you're down to Haiku, MorphOS, Genode, MINIX 3, and/or A2 Bluebottle. Haiku is a BeOS clone. MorphOS is one of last Amiga's that looks pretty awesome. Genode OS is a security-oriented, microkernel architecture that's using UNIX for bootstrapping…
Minix isn't bootstrapping on netbsd, the entire goal of the system is to be a microkernel based unix. It uses the netbsd userland because you don't need to rewrite an entire unix userland for no reason just to change kernels.
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#578What is the best language to learn OOP concepts ?
Good question. If we are talking "real OOP", I'm not sure these days. What do other people think?
Smalltalk is very long in the tooth these days, but it is still "rather object-oriented in good ways".
Erlang and its derivatives are fun and good to help that kind of thinking.
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#579What is Actor Model lacking?
For what?
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#580Given that tablets have lived up to the Dynabook concept, what do you think about seeing 3 year olds with iPads?
The Dynabook was/is much more of a "service idea" than a physical manifestation (there were actually 3 physical ideas for it). Today's tablets don't fulfill the service ideas.