> And can something like this be simulated in other imperative or functional type of programming languages? im pretty sure it can be, but without it being bui

> And can something like this be simulated in other imperative or functional type of programming languages? im pretty sure it can be, but without it being built in, it probably would be a chore > Was this the genius innovation to OOP, as opposed to procedural languages before it? i think so (if you consider smallltalk to be oop, as opposed to c++ or simula)... afaik, the other goal that would be enabled by message-passing, was to enable something akin to the actor system... but smalltalk largely stalled after st80....