Closing Keynote

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Claim: code is incidental and programming is applied philosophy; a 20‑year career surfaces a concrete bug in OO — the myth of messaging — traced to return values and what is named the transactional fallacy. Uses Smalltalk 72 examples, the actor model lineage and Erlang/Elixir ideas to show messaging was never truly implemented. Advocates modeling systems as processes not synchronous transactions, practices process-oriented programming, and warns every frozen system is a spinning beach ball of death caused by assuming instant completion.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:05PROGRAMMING IS APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
3. 5:30Polymorphism!
4. 6:18OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
5. 8:52THE METHOD FALLACY
6. 19:33THE TRANSACTIONAL FALLACY
7. 20:40Transactional Perspective
8. 29:58EMBRACE THE PROCESS
9. 35:21THROW AWAY YOUR FITBIT
10. 52:03Build Graceful Processes

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