Are you the Alan Kay. Is there any way we can verify this is you? The HN user account seems to have a very low "karma" rating, so one can't help but be more suspicious.
I'm the "computing Alan Kay" from the ARPA/Parc research community (there's a clarinettist, a judge, a wrestler, etc.) I did create a new account for these replies (I used my old ARPA login name).
It's really cool that you weigh in on discussions on HN. Or I suppose it feels like that to me primarily because I grew up reading your quotes in info text boxes in programming texts. And it's cool to have that person responding to comments.
It’s a new account created yesterday. Alan Kay did an AMA here a while back+ with the username “alankay1” and occasionally posted elsewhere. That account’s last post was 7 months ago. Given that user “Alan-1”s style and content is similar, it seems likely that he created a new account after half a year away from HN.
If you want verification, maybe you can convince him to do another AMA =) I’m still thinking about his more cryptic answers from the last one, which is well worth a read. I think that was before Dynamicland existed, but I may be off.
