OOP does not start with Smalltalk, but rather with Simula 67 a decade earlier. Simula 67 - not Smalltalk - was the main force that drove Bjarne Stroustrup to ex

OOP does not start with Smalltalk, but rather with Simula 67 a decade earlier. Simula 67 - not Smalltalk - was the main force that drove Bjarne Stroustrup to extend C into C++ and the rest history: While Smalltalk did enjoy a period of mild popularity in the late 80s early 90s and went on to influence other languages like Objective C and Ruby, the mainstream of OOP was defined by C++ and later Java. These languages viewed focused on statically determined method dispatch rather than message-passing, but this is a feature of their older lineage rather than the butchering of the original pristine form of OOP which never was.