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I can also model encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism in C. That doesn't make it an object-oriented programming language.

• orwin 4y ago
  I'm pretty sure you can do OOP in modern C. I've seen a raytracer in C that implemented it's own dispatch table, and effectively acted like OOP.
  • Rochus 4y ago
    You can also do OOP in assembler if you have nerves of steel.
• shric 4y ago
  And Alan Kay (first user of the term "object oriented programming") said: "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them."
  • kaba0 4y ago
    Alan Kay’s definition of OOP is quite distinct from the mainstream one, and just because he is the coiner of the term doesn’t make him automatically right.
    • shric 4y ago
      I didn't say, or mean to imply, he was automatically right, just pointing out yet another interpretation