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What about Smalltalk? Possibly the only other Object-Oriented language?

• marvel_boy 11y ago
  Sure, Smalltalk is the only OO language: message-passing, isolation and polymorphism. Java was a pathetic copy.
• pmontra 11y ago
  That interview is about both Erlang and Smalltalk. Ralph Johnson, not one of Smalltalk's designers but close to what we'd call an evangelist nowadays, speaks about Smalltalk. Unfortunately I can't find one sentence that captures his view about Smalltalk's OO. I quote Johnson about Erlang, and in a way about Smalltalk itself: "The thing about Erlang is that it's in some sense 2 languages, at least you program it 2 levels because one is the functional language that you use to write a single process and then there is what you think about all these processes and how do they interact, one process is sending messages to the other. At a higher level, that Erlang is object oriented, at the lowest level it's a pure functional language and that's how it got advertised for a long time." [...] "The only way in Smalltalk to interact with an object is send it a message, but the issue is what message do you have. It's the same thing in Erlang" So it seems to me that he's saying that Erlang's processes are close to Smalltalk's objects. I recommend reading all the transcript (much quicker than watching the video).
  • rasur 11y ago
    Ah yes, thanks for clarifying.. I didn't quite get as far as watching or reading the article due to work distractions. :/