Recently I was making a case to coworkers that the typeclass pattern in Scala (and presumably typeclasses in Haskell, I'm not personally familiar) was a complet

Recently I was making a case to coworkers that the typeclass pattern in Scala (and presumably typeclasses in Haskell, I'm not personally familiar) was a completely OOP construct in the vein of CLOS/Dylan. I was met with raised eyebrows all around, and some of the people in the room were pretty far beyond "those industry programmers" so the problem isn't just one of naiveté