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		cratermoon 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Idiomatic Go (2016) The term 'receiver' has a long and distinguished history. Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used the word almost exclusively. If Zoomers don't know their computer science history that's on them.

zaphirplane 4 months ago [–]

> Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used

So Alan and the language he helped create. That’s double counting the sample of 1

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