[KirinDave]

Clojure supports this though.

And given that removing the FP nature of Scala pretty much hamstrings its value proposition, I can see why he'd be dismissive of it on those grounds.

[Nekorosu]

Clojure supports class based OOP? Never heard of it. Could you give me a link to the relevant documentation page?

[sooheon]

Not really a OOP programmer, but I think the following cover some reasonable subset of OOP:

https://clojure.org/reference/multimethods

https://clojure.org/reference/protocols

[cutler]

That's selling Clojure a little short. Clojure has full Java interop via reify, proxy, gen-class, deftype and definterface.

[Nekorosu]

It's not class-based OOP.

[pjmlp]

Clojure supports protocols and multi-methods, the building blocks of CLOS, Common Lisp Object System.

Already at Xerox PARC, Lisps started to support OOP, with FLAVORS for Interlisp-D being one of the first ones.

EDIT: Disregard the last paragraph, lispm is right.

[lispm]

'Loops' was developed at Xerox PARC for Interlisp. Flavors was from MIT for Lisp Machine Lisp. Multimethods were first developed for Common Lisp in CommonLoops around 1986 at Xerox PARC.

[pjmlp]

Thanks for the correction. I typed it on the go without checking first.

[akmiller]

Via records (defrecord) and protocols.