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    95 hours ago

    In this post I use the word “OOP” to mean programming in statically-typed language

    So Smalltalk is not object-oriented. Someone tell Alan Kay.

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      32 hours ago

      Yeah let’s not forget the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) which was more full-featured of an object-oriented language than most “current” languages.

      The dynamism allowed both Smalltalk and CLOS to avoid a dark corner that will confound your typical OOP’er today - the circle/ellipse modeling problem; they allow an object to “become” a different type on its own accord. Take that, Java!