[leshow]

> It really should be noted that years later Joe changed his mind about OO and came to the realization that perhaps Erlang is the only object-oriented language :)

But not in the way he's describing OO in his blog post. He's talking about a language with functions bound to objects and where objects have some internal state. The OO he's describing does not have isolation between objects because you can share aliases freely; references abound.

[tabtab]

Nobody can agree on what OOP really is. I've been in and seen many long debates on the definition of OOP. It's kind of a like a Rorschach test: people project their preferences and biases into the definition.

Until some central body is officially appointed definition duty, the definition debate will rage on.

[bluejay2387]

Is this different from ANY other concept in technology? Personal Computing, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence? We never have real definitions for any of these, and if you attempt to make one it will be obsolete before you finish your blog post.

The only real problem I see is that too many technologist insist that there is 'one definition to rule them all' and it's usually the one they most agree with. As long as we all understand that these terms are fluid and can explain the pro's and con's of our particular version we will be fine.