> My problem with this vision of OOP is that it would seem to take a great deal more support from the programming environment to make it work, compared to FP O

> My problem with this vision of OOP is that it would seem to take a great deal more support from the programming environment to make it work, compared to FP One way to think about this is that there isn't a difference between your programming environment and the rest of your computing environment. There are no real "applications". There are just message sends and objects floating around. This is what Smalltalk was/is like.