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by paulddraper 3727 days ago
One of the more ironic titles I've seen.

Alan Kay (progenitor of Smalltalk and OOP) has said on various occasions that it should have been called message-oriented programming, rather than object-oriented.

"I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term 'objects' for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is 'messaging'"

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...