>The object.method(args) "won" because it is a low barrier to entry from English to Programming indeed BASIC and C didn't have a concept of objects* , which di

>The object.method(args) "won" because it is a low barrier to entry from English to Programming indeed BASIC and C didn't have a concept of objects* , which didn't seem to hinder adoption at all. object.method() became popular when OOP languages became popular, and that was because IDEs offered better autocompletion with that syntax. * We could emulate objects with C in some gnarly ways. Almost no one did at the time, excluding C-with-classes/C++.