"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I’m not aware of them."

~Alan Kay

So my colleagues and I were having a discussion about object oriented programming (OOP) and exactly what it means today versus when the term was first coined by Alan Kay in the late 60’s. Specifically, whether prototype-based languages are truly object oriented as compared to class-based languages which are the mainstream. It’s very interesting to read Kay’s own take on the subject, and realize that what most of us consider to be OOP today resembles but little the original conception.

Programming, it turns out, is hard.

Marijn Haverbeke

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

This kind of “I broke things, so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak” is not acceptable.

Linus Torvalds

Using jQuery deferreds is a little like courting a woman: you have to be careful not to make promises you can’t keep.

Me

learning Javascript used to mean you weren’t a “serious software developer”. today, not learning Javascript means the same thing.

James Governor

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you great one.

Mario Fusco

Then finally, there is that question of code privacy. This is a lost cause. There is no transformation that will keep a determined hacker from understanding your program. …If you don’t want people to see your programs, unplug your server.

Douglas Crockford

A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.

Waldi Ravens