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Object oriented programming was meant to be used in a Smalltalk environment, where immediacy & liveliness were key principles of the design. OOP wasn't meant t

Object oriented programming was meant to be used in a Smalltalk environment, where immediacy & liveliness were key principles of the design. OOP wasn't meant to be used by professional programmers ever, but this is always always forgotten. Why do we still talk about OOP when it comes to professional / full-time programming? OOP was always meant to be about providing end-users a way to create programs & dynamic behavior without becoming full-time programmers. - http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay... - https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented

pbourke 4y ago
I don’t get this originalist argument. After it’s introduction, OOP very clearly evolved in a professional direction almost immediately. Why would you erase that history, and the work of hundreds to thousands of people working on object technologies, because it wasn’t the original conception?
- skadamat 4y ago
  Fair point! I guess when I see people saying "OOP isn't getting us what we want" ... then I want to point out that it was adopted for a different use case for which people are claiming it's falling short for?