[curtis]

I think you're right that there's a serious problem with how OOP is described. Why that's so is a full topic in and of itself.

In the case of Alan Kay, I can't help but feel like he was trying to create one thing but actually created another.

[jamesbritt]

"Smalltalk is object-oriented, but it should have been message oriented." -- Alan Kay

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