[sdsd]

I wonder if, in that world, Lisp would be the boring corporate language, and HN would dream of a world where object orientation (which is clearly superior) never had a chance to leap from academia to the mainstream, and hackers post their niche flavors of Java and Smalltalk here.

[arethuza]

Well, that world would also have CLOS - maybe the AMOP would be treated with the same reverence as the GoF design patterns book... ;-)

[jjtheblunt]

this article discussing how closure creation is disguised OO (and vice versa) might interest you.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

[Jtsummers]

Even discussed here a couple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33676959 - November 2022, 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363635 - April 2015, 45 comments