Well if you want to go that way ;-) jokingly Erlang is the only true OO language implementing Alan Kay's idea of what "Object Oriented" means -- passing message

Well if you want to go that way ;-) jokingly Erlang is the only true OO language implementing Alan Kay's idea of what "Object Oriented" means -- passing messages between isolated components. I've heard of inheritance as a corrupting influence which has taken over and corrupted OO for years/ Funny enough, even most OO folks eventually realized that and moved to banish inheritance as a viable pattern.