It amazes me how some programming language authors seem to be clueless about really major areas of our field. Guido isn't the only one. Andrew (the submitter/a

It amazes me how some programming language authors seem to be clueless about really major areas of our field. Guido isn't the only one. Andrew (the submitter/author of this post) once told me a story of how Brian Kernighan told him Scheme had too many parentheses and is too strange and functional to be useful (take that with a grain of salt - it's a paraphrase of a paraphrase). I've also yet to see any non-Smalltalker/Erlanger language author understand the importance of OOP in the sense of creating encapsulated objects which can be hot-swapped at will. As far as I can tell, this was the point of OOP as Alan Kay saw it. Java-style "reload the VM to reload objects" being called OOP is just painful.