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by dschiptsov 4247 days ago
That something else was Java.

One of the answers could be that almost every OO language borrowed some concepts form Smalltalk and implemented them in a less "cryptic" (or esoteric) way. Take a closer look at that Objective-C. Erlang's (non-OO) modules and message-passing primitives were also influenced by Smalltalk.