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Comment by alankay

The "someone" for Smalltalk was Dan Ingalls.

I came up with the Smalltalk half-pager because John McCarthy had shown how to do it -- and because message-passing OOP can be a not too crazy perspective on Lisp (especially a variant of "apply", and especially if you use the FEXPR and closure ideas).

parent alankay 8 years ago

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