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Alan Kay didn't invent oop in Smalltalk, hence my question: why is Smalltalk the style better than Simula style.
by blub 16y ago
Alan Kay didn't invent oop in Smalltalk, hence my question: why is Smalltalk the style better than Simula style.
- kragen 16y agoAlan Kay invented the term "object-oriented programming" to describe what they were trying to do in Smalltalk. It's irrelevant whether Simula-style programming is better or worse than OOP; we're just discussing whether it's equally OO, which is a question about what definition we are choosing to accept — a semantic question, not a normative or factual one.
- gnaritas 16y ago> Alan Kay didn't invent oop in Smalltalk Yes, he most certainly did. Simula had objects, but it was not object oriented, objects were not the core abstraction everything was built upon. That didn't come until Smalltalk which is why Smalltalk is the defining language for the term object oriented.