Go has true message passing, which is far more important to OOP than anything to do with data modeling, and Go's composition model for data is far more object-o

Go has true message passing, which is far more important to OOP than anything to do with data modeling, and Go's composition model for data is far more object-oriented than the usual Linnaean classicism. Pay attention to Alan Kay, not Stroustrup or Gosling. If you really want to know what OOP is / was / can be, read Cardelli and Abadi's A Theory of Objects. The first half is available online, and covers the parts you'd care about: http://books.google.com/books?id=4xT3LgCPP5UC http://books.google.com/books?id=4xT3LgCPP5UC