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Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Better Software Conference
Casey Muratori's two-hour talk tracing the history of object-oriented programming back to the 1960s and examining how its ideas, and later entity component systems, came about. It is followed by a Q&A.
HN commenters recommend it for its source-based history of OOP, though some dispute its account of Alan Kay.
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