I have never programmed in Smalltalk, however apparently Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is similar. Object oriented programming in Java always seemed like a t

I have never programmed in Smalltalk, however apparently Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is similar. Object oriented programming in Java always seemed like a tone of unnecessary boilerplate just for the sake of making classes and interfaces (phone apps are a big example of this where even the simplest apps are waaay more complicated than they need to be), until I started using CLOS. Common Lisp also has macros and even a pure functional environment a-la ML, however all these paradigms are used quite sparingly in the community