I could hardly believe how beautiful and wonderful the idea of LISP was. I say it this way because LISP had not only been around enough to get some honest barnacles, but worse, there were deep flaws in its logical foundations. By this, I mean that the pure language was supposed to be based on functions, but its most important components — such as lambda expressions, quotes, and conds — were not functions at all, and instead were called special forms ... My next questions was, why on Earth call it a functional language? Why not just base everything on FEXPRs and force evaluation on the receiving side when needed? I could never get a good answer
Далее Кей пишет о том, что эти размышления привели его к идее создания модели Ъ-ООП
А, все же интересно, кто-нибудь, таки, дал ответ на вопрос Алана Кея?
